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The JPL pictures of Mars and the artificial structures were astounding. Have these photos been analyzed more and what was the final analysis?
I am not sure which JPL photos you are referring to, but my guess is that these are pictures of the so-called "face on Mars" as discussed on several websites that pop up when I google "Mars artificial structures". No Mars scientist I know takes these photos seriously as evidence of “artificial structures”. This is an old story, long ago dismissed by everyone except a few cranks. Sure, it looks like a face in low-resolution images like the original Viking photo in 1976. And equally obviously it does not look like a face in the many higher-resolution photos, under different lighting conditions, that have been taken recently by much more powerful cameras in orbit around Mars. For more information I suggest these two websites and the links they provide to the best high-resolution photos of this feature (NASA Science at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast24may_1.htm; Phil Plait's BadAstronomy at http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/face.html). Mars is an extraordinarily interesting planet, and it has been studied more intensively than any planet besides our own. But it is the real science that I find so fascinating, not the pseudoscience claims of "artificial structures". David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist
March 8, 2008
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