![]() The culprit here is human psychology itself. It's just the right amount of obscurity to get our visual senses tingling. The other side of the face is blocked by shadow, but our brain automatically fills in the rest. ![]() The protruding peak in the middle creates thenose, while the sunk-in areas give the illusion of an eye and part of a mouth. If we look closely, we can see how the clearer modern image (left) could give rise to the older and less-detailed image (right) under certain lighting conditions and poorer optics. Image (left): NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. These images were taken over 30 years apart. **Here are the two side by side, one from 2007 and one from 1976: That doesn't mean the first picture is fake, just that it's a coincidentally weird picture of just one of Mars' many surface features. So, either there really was a face-and it somehow got covered up-or there was never a face at all. NASA's modern HiRISE imager currently in orbit around Mars captured this same feature some 30 years later:Ī face on Mars? Maybe not. Later, as more advanced probes with improved optics ventured to Mars, image detail improved dramatically. At the time, Viking was cutting-edge technology, and it sure looked like there was a human face carved into the surface of Mars. That's right-an image of a feature on Mars that resembles a human face. NASA's Viking probe took that photo 40 years ago. ![]() The face on Mars, captured by Viking, circa 1976. Our brains just trick us into thinking there is. There is no face on Mars, nor is there a heart on Pluto. ![]()
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