In April 2000 we presented all the images that had been taken in
the Cydonia region of Mars up until that time. This is the area
where popular books, magazine articles, tabloids and other
news/infotainment media have speculated that some of the hills
and mesas were artificially-shaped by extraterrestrial
intelligence into forms such as a pyramid, a cone, and, most
publicized, a face. Owing to this continuing interest, the Mars
Orbiter Camera (MOC) team has, whenever the Mars Global Surveyor
spacecraft has flown over the region, commanded the MOC to take
a picture. This picture shows a section of one of these, MOC
image M16-00184, which shows a portion of the famed "face"
landform. It covers an area 1.1 km (0.7 mi) across and 3.0 km
(1.9 mi) down and is the highest-resolution view ever obtained
for this feature (1.7 meters-- 5.6 feet-- per pixel). more
information and images Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space
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