With luck, the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft's high resolution camera, capable of 30 times more resolution than the best Viking photos, will soon confirm or refute this conclusion that the Cydonia complex is apparently artificial. Taken in conjunction with the finding of bilateral symmetry in the Face, the anomalous nature of nearby objects on Mars, and positive results from all other tests of artificiality to date, the weight of existing evidence appears to have shifted in favor of an artificial origin of the Cydonia complex.
This has only about a 1% probability of occurring by chance. We here draw attention to the fact that the Cydonia area is right on the old martian equator, and the "Face" is oriented perpendicular to that old equator, to within the measurement uncertainties. But it has previously been established that the Martian poles had a different location with respect to the surface of the planet in the past (Schultz, 1985), and apparently jumped from that location to the present one in relatively little geological time. The principle test results favoring a natural origin are the apparently random location and random orientation on the planet, because no apparent purpose is served by a face monument looking upward toward space if it is not oriented right-side-up and in an attention-getting location on the planet. Eight tests of artificiality have been proposed, yielding mixed results. One of these is the so-called "Face" on Mars. The new versions would have wheels and grappling arms.The Cydonia region on Mars contains six landforms in close proximity that do not appear completely natural in one way or another. The chopper weighs just 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms). Executive director Donald Parker, for instance, is a. Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO) - The astronomers of ALPO are mostly amateurs, yet many are expert observers. The red planet is already an appealing target for sky watchers. The helicopters will be modeled after NASA’s successful Ingenuity, which has made 29 flights since arriving with Perseverance at Mars early last year. Approaching Mars (ScienceNASA) - Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter in August. If Perseverance breaks down, the two helicopters being built and launched later this decade would load the samples onto the rocket instead. There’s “a diversity of materials already in the bag, so to speak, and really excited about the potential for bringing these back,” she said. The most recent sample, a sedimentary rock, holds the greatest promise of containing possible evidence of ancient Martian life, said Arizona State University’s Meenakshi Wadhwa, chief scientist for the retrieval effort. Perseverance already has gathered 11 samples with more rock drilling planned. Under the plan announced Wednesday, NASA’s Perseverance rover will do double duty and transport the cache to the rocket that will launch them off the red planet a decade from now. In the original image, taken by Viking 1, one of thousands of buttes, mesas, ridges, and knobs in the transition zone between the. Check out the slideshow above for more strange Mars. This high-resolution image from the Mars Orbiter Camera about the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft shows the famous 'Face on Mars' in detail, clearly showing it to be a natural geological formation. (AP) - NASA is launching two more mini helicopters to Mars in its effort to return Martian rocks and soil samples to Earth. The smiley face and statue are by far not the first time alian conspiracy theorists spotted something strange in NASA Mars rover images.
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