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Take a look at it! You’ll have enough wonder to last a thousand lifetimes. There’s a vast, amazing, real Universe around you in every direction. And even believing in minor silliness means you’re giving up a precious bit of reality. Another year on the surface, then six months back. It’s OK to chuckle over stuff like the Face on Mars. ANGLE FOLLOWS COTE Who grins, walking away from Phil and the kids, as we begin to get a better sense. A lot of the time it’s just silly, but sometimes-far too often- people die because of belief in nonsense. NGC 6946 is also known as the Fireworks Galaxy, thanks to the large number of supernovae astronomers have observed within it eight in the last 100 years or so. A debunker’s work will never end, because there will never be an end of bunk to debunk! Ignoring big mainstream stuff like creationism, global warming denial, and anti-vaxxers, there will still always be nonsense like UFOs, astrology, ghost hunters, life in meteorites, and so on. It can be plainly seen that these are natural features, and no carved ‘face’ is present. The lower left photo is the recent view, which is clearer and has light coming from a different angle. You’d think that might mean eventually debunkers go out of business as well. The top photo, taken by Viking 20 years ago, shows how the ‘face’ originally appeared. It’s the fate of most pseudoscience, actually, to fade away as tastes change (or if the promulgators dumbly put an expiration date on their nonsense ). Even some hi-res ones.īut then better space probes were sent to the Red Planet, better images were taken at higher magnification and different lighting angles, and the Face disappeared in a puff of logic.įor a while you’d still get a glimpse of it in magazines and newspapers, and I’d get the odd invite to give my public talk. Mostly the idea was promoted by Richard Hoagland, about whom I’ve pretty much said everything there needs to be said.Īs the video lays out, the picture of the Face was first taken by the Viking 1 spacecraft in the 1970s, and it really does look like a face … just like low-resolution images of just about anything resemble faces. A small room typically requires from 200 to 300 ANSI lumens, whereas a large room may. An ANSI lumen rating uses an average of several measurements taken across the face of the light source. It is commonly used to rate the brightness of a data projector. The High Resolution Stereo Camera images are some of the. Despite being one of the silliest examples of pseudoscience in history, a few years ago it was Big News I even had a popular public talk I gave lambasting it. A measurement of light that has been standardized by ANSI. Recently, ESAs Mars Express delivered photos of the famous Face on Mars in the Cydonia region.
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I hadn’t thought about the Face in some time it’s been a while since anyone’s really talked about it. There’s another joint that forms the right side of the feature.I got a good chuckle out of a video Slate just posted over on the video section of the site *: a deconstruction of the “Face” on Mars. There is a particularly obvious joint on the left of the “door” image, but several others can be made out - including one that forms the smooth wall that lines up with the left side of the “door” itself. These once covered the stream and lake sediments that Curiosity examined earlier in its gradual climb up through the layers of sedimentary rock making up Mount Sharp.Ī geologist would also spot the steep and fairly straight cracks running up the rock face and recognize these as “joints.” These are fractures that typically open up when the weight of overlying rock layers is removed by erosion. Nobody with even a little geological experience is likely to mistake the feature as a “door.” A geologist would note the thin and slightly sloping repeated layers of sandstone making up the whole of the rock face and would immediately expect that they were looking at the eroded remains of hardened sand dunes. The motivation then, as now, was to determine the. The initial Global Surveyor picture released by NASA was also distorted because the spacecraft did not pass directly overhead, but the camera was instead tilted. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS What made the “door” on Mars? the maria, the deserts, and the total disk of Mars at various phase angles during the period 1922 to 1926. During this period, a couple of gullies formed on the dune slip face. With sunlight coming from a different angle. Raw Curiosity camera image centered on the ‘door’. The nearly three Earth years of intervening time amount to about 1.4 Mars years. When the Mars Global Surveyor approached Mars, a special effort was made to take better pictures of the face.