Ah, but then throw in the lighting, which does change a lot during a day.
As far as I can recall, the face only appeared given particular viewing angles and lighting conditions - it just looked like a mountain for most others. Just look at the newer images that have been taken of it from different angles/times of day:
http://images.google.com.au/images?sour ... a=N&tab=wi

I'm quite certain it's just a mountain that looks good from a certain angle given certain lighting conditions.

And the 3D image they got in that youtube video was bogus - I've actually experimented with stuff like that recently with crazybump to make normal maps out of FS textures, and it is simply not very accurate because there's pretty much nothing useful to go on. Sure they had much more advanced stuff to 'calculate' it, but they're using the same grainy low res image.

In fact, have a read of this, which tells the story of the face on mars: http://www.karmastrology.com/marsface.shtml

I like this face on mars better:

It could still be significant. Afterall, plenty of things on THIS planet have been eroded over time, if that is artifial, we could be talking many more thousands years of erosion. Maybe the original was sharp and clear cut?

Now we only have to wait gawd-knows how long to find some Easter bunnies down there.

Hunter wrote:It could still be significant. Afterall, plenty of things on THIS planet have been eroded over time, if that is artifial, we could be talking many more thousands years of erosion. Maybe the original was sharp and clear cut?

Now we only have to wait gawd-knows how long to find some Easter bunnies down there.

We have a wee bit more air and water than Mars, natch

You think Mars has no weather?

Heh, I think between the thousands of years theu its had and the realitively little atmosphere, it kinda rounds out in the end.

aldo wrote:
We have a wee bit more air and water than Mars, natch

There are parts of Mars (Hellas crater) that are under continual cloudcover anyways.

Why people see faces.


http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/lenin.html

ngtm1r wrote:

aldo wrote:
We have a wee bit more air and water than Mars, natch

There are parts of Mars (Hellas crater) that are under continual cloudcover anyways.

Like Glasgow?

Pretty much, but with more dry ice. Unless you have the biggest clubbing scene that side of the Atlantic.

I can only imagine all the runny noses in Glasgow!