text: Although, the natural landform does look like an alien, but that's just how the natural landform is. The picture was actually showing us a butte or mesa, which is a landform that is common around the American West. So, this is common here, in the Earth, so this has to be common in Mars. They even said, "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." So, it was provened to be a mesa.