text: Some people belived the Face was an alien artifact photographing cydonia became a prioriy for NASA when mars Global Surveyor arrived at the red planet in Sept. 1997 eighteen long years after the. Viking missions eneded people felt that was important to taxpayers.         It is logically impossible for aliens to create what we call The Face. Although we do not know if such life forms exist, it still could not happen. It would take hundreds, or even thousands of lightyears to travel to the Milkyway galaxy. Extra-terrestrials would most likely have the same life-span as us, or slighty shorter/longer. So they probably couldn't survive the whole trip to our galaxy.