Question Is this image of Mars real?

[TheKnicks]

Hi, I am new here, so it might just seem silly! I was recently looking through images on gigapan.com and this image of mars kind of caught my attention. At first, it didnt' look like much or anything, and I didnt' really get the point of the person posting it... But then I kind of did see some faces, and perhaps a snake, but it gave me a sense of abstract art, you see what you want to see... then I thought, is this a joke or is it a NASA image?

Large Statues on Mars?

Peculiar rock formation on planet Mars. CTX image: B01_010143_2216_XN_41N009W

www.gigapan.com

Knicks

 

[COLGeek]

Coincidental only. Like looking at clouds and seeing things, or familiar faces on a potato chip.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Pareidolia - Recognizing familiar shapes/faces in inanimate objects.

We do this all the time.

-Wolf sends

 

[Robotron]

Hi, I am new here, so it might just seem silly! I was recently looking through images on gigapan.com and this image of mars kind of caught my attention. At first, it didnt' look like much or anything, and I didnt' really get the point of the person posting it... But then I kind of did see some faces, and perhaps a snake, but it gave me a sense of abstract art, you see what you want to see... then I thought, is this a joke or is it a NASA image?

Large Statues on Mars?

Peculiar rock formation on planet Mars. CTX image: B01_010143_2216_XN_41N009W

www.gigapan.com

This is the region of Cydonia of Mars, home of the infamous "Face on Mars." The easy answer is pareidolia, which is the favored response of skeptics who haven't actually looked at the evidence for artificiality. The reason Cydonia has been of such intense interest over the past 30 years is that there appear to be relationships between the oddly shaped objects, as well as unlikely geometries within certain land forms.

You can see the multiple peer reviewed papers on these land forms, and the arguments in favor of them being artificial, at the Society for Plantary SETI Research web site.

The unfortunate early dismissal and documented multiple lies of various NASA spokesman contributed to the conspiratorial aspect of the Cydonia saga. See the two books The McDaniel Report and The Case for the Face for more details.

 

[TheKnicks]

This is the region of Cydonia of Mars, home of the infamous "Face on Mars." The easy answer is pareidolia, which is the favored response of skeptics who haven't actually looked at the evidence for artificiality. The reason Cydonia has been of such intense interest over the past 30 years is that there appear to be relationships between the oddly shaped objects, as well as unlikely geometries within certain land forms.

You can see the multiple peer reviewed papers on these land forms, and the arguments in favor of them being artificial, at the Society for Plantary SETI Research web site.

The unfortunate early dismissal and documented multiple lies of various NASA spokesman contributed to the conspiratorial aspect of the Cydonia saga. See the two books The McDaniel Report and The Case for the Face for more details.

Hi, Thank you for the information and link!

 

[Catastrophe]

Pareidolia - Recognizing familiar shapes/faces in inanimate objects.

We do this all the time.

-Wolf sends

Thank you for that reference. "The Jurist", in particular, is amazing.

 

[serhiy1635]

Hi, I am new here, so it might just seem silly! I was recently looking through images on gigapan.com and this image of mars kind of caught my attention. At first, it didnt' look like much or anything, and I didnt' really get the point of the person posting it... But then I kind of did see some faces, and perhaps a snake, but it gave me a sense of abstract art, you see what you want to see... then I thought, is this a joke or is it a NASA image?

Large Statues on Mars?

Peculiar rock formation on planet Mars. CTX image: B01_010143_2216_XN_41N009W

www.gigapan.com

Knicks

I assume it might be not a fake. We have already seen a lot of pics from NASA from Mars. They don`t have a need to make fake news or fake pics)
However, only NASA knows if it is real or not))