On July 25, 1976 the US spacecraft Viking-1 photographed an astounding formation on the surface of Mars. The 1.5 kilometer-long object bore resemblance to woman's face. The photograph produced a sensation in the whole world - almost all newspapers and magazines of the world published the picture on their pages, the image of the Martian face was on constant presence on television.Astronomers said the image of the face on the red planet was a wholly incidental trick of nature. The face, however, was oriented on the Martian meridian, but it was considered incidental too. Specialists from the Boston-based Analytic Sciences created a 3-D image of the above-mentioned structure and discovered the image of the 'humanoid face' on it indeed. Having intensified the contrast of the shaded right side of the image, specialists found the second 'eye' situated about 100 meters beneath the 'nose.' To crown it all, there was something reminiscent of 'teeth' too. According to the results of the analysis, specialists concluded the anomalous formation could not be of the terrestrial origin.

Furthermore, engineers Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Malenaar found another image of the face in the archives of Martian photographs. The picture was taken with different lighting 35 days after the first original image was taken. The detailed computer analysis proved the peculiarities of the first picture and revealed new details as well. One could see an 'eyeball,' a 'pupil' and 'teeth' on the sun-lit 'cheek.' The two engineers concluded that if the details of the stone head were of the natural origin, the nature would have to be a reasonable creature.

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Well, if Pravda says it, I guess we have no choice but to believe it...

Becasue we all know what high level of journalistic integrity that the Pravda has in such issues.

In a related story; Weekly World News' "Bat Boy" is said to be touring The Pravda newspaper site today with hopes of increasing his exposure to a wider audience, film at 11.

Hey- Don't dis Bat Boy... after all, he lead the US to Saddam.

How about the article that says that Russias manned mission to mars is almost scheduled for launch. They just need to finish building the ship.

At one point in history, I would be able to believe that (they did manage to put Sputnik into space before the US did after all), but now-a-days, it's a little harder to believe.

Come on people how can you doubt the journalistic integrity of Pravda Didn't you all watch MIB?

Well I have to admit, when I need a good laugh ... I go straight to Pravda. Mind you amongst their fantastical stories maybe a few of them have some fundamental truth (I said maybe). In respect to the Mars face dissapearing, I dont see it as a major phenomenon. Most of us are aware of the massive Martian dust storms & if that feature is not visible now whose to say its not beneath the Martian sands.For an Earthly comparison look at the Sphinx in Egypt. Over time this feature has been covered in sand then uncovered & then covered again & this is from terrestrial weather conditions. So to me no big deal until NASA send something there to check it out.

I must say I had a huge laugh at the headline on Pravda that Russia conquered Mars 30 years ago & thenn goes on to say the mission is set to begin in either Summer, Winter or Autumn in 2005 ?!?! How come they can't do it in Spring ? & then it insinuates it is merely a simulation that doesnt even leave Earth but simulates the return flight to test human endurance. I say they should send the guy from the Rocket Man movie *L*

Yeah, I remember they had an article saying that living Megalodons had been found.... yet not a trace of that article anywhere else on the web, or on the news channel. Yeah, a 60 foot shark is discovered, and nobody else mentions it

So where does this article state that the face on Mars has disappeared ?