What's everybodys take on them? I know alot people that would like to believe they were built by aliens and i viewed some older pics of them and at the time they did appear to look like they were constructed, But to me they just look like very large sand dunes like the ones we have on earth and i think that the facial features are more attributed to the wind blowing over a period of years instead of aliens building them

Or the sand could be filling in what was destroyed, so it looks like the monument it probably is, as far as the second set of pictures, they were a coverup.

The goverment and those agency's they control are used to lieing to the rest of us, it would be no problem for them to set up a false set of pictures, with the chain of people involved greased or threatened.

Yeah, OR they were created by a wind storm.

So they appear. No arguement there.

I think its just an illusion from the shadows
I have seen a pretty good show on Nova about this actually without the right light
It dosent look like a face at all .I think its one of those oddities like when you see
a cat in a cloud and stuff like that

there are several faces on mars...the one you're probably talking about looks like the face of the sphinx

are there any pictures of the sphinx on mars?

Yep, me to.

Are you for real? This isn't a Bruce Willis film.

There has only ever been ONE picture where the mound looks like a face, and that was a grainy b&w one in the 70s. Since then, every single picture looks exactly like what it is. A mound of sand.

I can't believe this is even a topic of conversation AGAIN.

Thats the point, the other pictures are doctored by those who somehow think they know whats best for the rest of us. And in case you did'nt know, the group with the strangest beliefs{religious...etc} are the one's in power whether any one admits it or not, and their beliefs don't contain things like humanity coming from another world, they think their horror fantasy called god made them here.

So it does'nt matter what the public is shown, it's never the truth.

It's been pretty well established that these are formations that play tricks on the mind. They were created by "wind and time" - just like we have many similar examples on Earth of Rocks that took on "Specific Forms" - From a rock formation that looks like it could be an Elephant - to many number of cliffs that have facial features. Even the "face of a man" when we look at the Moon at just the right time.

There is also what I think I remember being the "Gastalt Theory" (sp?) - where he show that with various shapes and such our MIND sees things that are not there. Like when you take a several rows and collums of squares, you'll see circles between the four corners in the gap. Optical illussion, in that the circles are not really there.

Several people actually went and got the topographic data and converted them to DEMS and processed the 'raw' data in programs like BRYCE and Vita Pro and 3D Max. When the light is 'right' you see a face. When the light source changes it's not longer a face but a rubble of rocks, stones, dust.

Probably nothing more than illusion.

If you were looking for alien relics on another planet, a monument of a face looking up at the sky doesn't seem very likely as the only thing left.. you'd expect to see remains of cities-- civlization first.

Or it could be nothing. Wishful thinking.

No there is not. People see what they want to.

Keyword there, ericraven. 'Could' be.

If you look at it as whole, then the probablity is that it is nothing. I could say there is a possiblity of Santa. The probablity makes it virtually impossible.

Uhh, you seem to always bring Santa Claus into the subjects, especially since it is irrelevant in most cases. A face suspected to have been created by ETs on Mars and the belief of a jolly old elf that lives in the North Pole making toys are two completely different subjects.

Both are fantastical beliefs with no support. Not much difference.

I couldn't agree more. It doesn't change the fact that they're two completely different subjects, however.

Pareidolia

RAMS

remains of ancient Martian smiley face... or peridolia...

LINK-> Mars is Smiling!

That's what i think. The face or faces on mars are actually the result of lots of sand or serveral windstorms over a period of time.

Natural formations.

If any of you travel to lake Berryessa in N. CA. there is a natural rock formation that looks like a man smoking a pipe from the profile view. From the front it is indistinguishable. The mars face is interesting, but if others made it why would it be facing up rather than in a postition that one would expect from a statue, unless it toppled over eons of time? If it were part of a very huge statue then you would think that some other parts of it would be seen at least in part. I still enjoy the intrigue it brings to the imagination.

Or if it was part of a huge statue, you would think it would look down towards the surface and beings that created it and not towards the sky.

Up in New Hampshire, there was a natural rock formation known as 'Old Man of the Mountain" that also looked like a face, until it collapsed a few years ago.

True, true. Even the moon has the "face" features in the right light.

Well, that depends. If I was in Mars looking at Earth at the time of the Great Pyramids, all you would see is four triangles forming a square. But then again, we have Pyramids all over the world, so it would be a further indication of man-made monuments.

On the other hand, we had life well before structures could be built, like cavemen. If Mars had intelligent life-to-be, maybe a natural cataclysm occured before the lifeforms had a change to evolve to a more intellectual being.

I have to recommend the book "The Cydonia Codex: Reflections From Mars" by George Haas and William Saunders. While a very attractive book, with quite a bit of quasi-science and speculative comparison, it really serves to only to show the extent of pareidolia involved in not only the well known "sphinx face" but in nearly every rock, crater and formation in the Cydonian area of Mars. Using the exact same techniques employed by the authors of this book, and throughout the numerous websites devoted to the "ancient Martian culture", I can do the exact same thing to "prove" the existence of advanced civilizations in clouds. Personally I think it would be fantastic to discover the remains of a Martian civilization, however to date there is no evidence that holds up to even the most casual scrutiny to imply any of these claims are based in any more than wishful thinking. Common sense itself should cause people to ask this question also... If NASA is manipulating photographs and involved in a major cover-up of what would be epic proportions, then why would they have released the first photograph of the face in the first place? If they were 'hiding" something... wouldn't the smartest thing to do have been to simply NOT release the photograph to the public, and the media and allow it to be splashed it all over the internet in the first place?

I see faces in clouds and rocks. I actually have a rock that has a distinct face and the shape of a head. Doesn't mean anything.

Whoa! That's my friend, Bunny! What was she doing there?