text: when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia the people waited anxiously to see if it was alien made or a natural landform. On paragraph seven it says " Thousand of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." On April 5, 1998 it was confirmed that the face was just a natural landform not an alien monument as people thought.