Forget About the Face

Posted by jburk to Face On Mars at May 24, 2001 12:00 PM

Nearly 25 years after an orbiting spacecraft caught the Red Planet “mugging” for the camera, NASA released the highest-resolution image yet of the so-called Face on Mars. The new picture, taken by the camera aboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft on April 8 and released today, shows the area in far sharper detail, but reduces any resemblance to a humanlike extraterrestrial.