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post Sep 21 2006, 11:15 AM
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post Sep 21 2006, 05:00 PM
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If the Viking Orbiter's cameras had been just better enough to image Cydonia in
more detail, would the issue of the Face have ever come up?

Personally I think there are plenty of far more interesting natural features on
Mars that valuable time and effort could be devoted to. The Face and the Pyramids
have become quite the rut and taken away from important Mars exploration.

I know I am hardly alone in these thoughts on this forum, but I just had to say it.

Just once it would be nice if the public wanted to explore a world for its own
merits rather than the perceived notion that some kind of life is there.


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no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

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post Sep 22 2006, 07:12 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Sep 21 2006, 08:00 PM) *
If the Viking Orbiter's cameras had been just better enough to image Cydonia in
more detail, would the issue of the Face have ever come up?


If Nasa never had made the press release about Martian faces in Viking images (the happy face (Galle crater) and the sad face (the mesa)) nobody probably would have heard of it. Years ago the press release text was available at the JPL website, but I haven't seen it since.

QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Sep 21 2006, 08:00 PM) *
Personally I think there are plenty of far more interesting natural features on
Mars that valuable time and effort could be devoted to. The Face and the Pyramids
have become quite the rut and taken away from important Mars exploration.


Yes, it's hard to imagine a less interesting object.


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- Sunspot   Cydonia: Face on Mars   Sep 21 2006, 11:15 AM
- - djellison   Great pictures tied in with the highest res. topog...   Sep 21 2006, 11:26 AM
|- - AndyG   QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 21 2006, 12:26 PM)...   Sep 21 2006, 02:10 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 21 2006, 04:26 AM)...   Sep 21 2006, 02:37 PM
- - climber   The mosts recent posts were all trying to demonstr...   Sep 21 2006, 11:33 AM
- - MichaelT   Yes, very nice pictures. On the web site of a Germ...   Sep 21 2006, 02:20 PM
- - Jyril   The Mars Express image looks suprisingly similar t...   Sep 21 2006, 02:24 PM
- - Jyril   That seems to be the case. The accompanying MEX im...   Sep 21 2006, 02:47 PM
- - ljk4-1   If the Viking Orbiter's cameras had been just ...   Sep 21 2006, 05:00 PM
|- - Jyril   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Sep 21 2006, 08:00 P...   Sep 22 2006, 07:12 PM
- - Decepticon   The region itself is very interesting. Look at the...   Sep 21 2006, 06:57 PM
- - nprev   Oh joy...CNN just picked up the story: http://www....   Sep 22 2006, 10:53 PM
|- - Sunspot   QUOTE (nprev @ Sep 22 2006, 11:53 PM) Oh ...   Sep 22 2006, 11:25 PM
|- - angel1801   I just did a look of Hoagland's website and I ...   Sep 23 2006, 09:19 AM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (angel1801 @ Sep 23 2006, 05:19 AM)...   Sep 24 2006, 09:32 PM
- - fallofrain   A few years ago in Antarctica I attended a lecture...   Sep 23 2006, 03:05 AM
- - NoVi   A somewhat less avanced civilization also managed ...   Sep 23 2006, 12:51 PM
- - DonPMitchell   There was a pretty good general discussion about c...   Sep 23 2006, 01:09 PM
- - MarkL   These images are truly great, and honestly have st...   Sep 23 2006, 07:38 PM
- - ljk4-1   Today's APOD has a rather impressive image of ...   Sep 26 2006, 06:19 PM
- - ustrax   Cool... http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Expres...   Oct 23 2006, 12:51 PM
- - climber   QUOTE (ustrax @ Oct 23 2006, 02:51 PM) Co...   Oct 23 2006, 03:34 PM


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