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Respected "Martian Enigmas" investigator Dr. Mark Carlotto, a specialist
in photo analysis of the controversial "Face" and "City" landforms at Cydonia,
has posted the latest results of his ongoing investigation at his website,
http://www.psrw.com/~markc/Articles/cydoniaUpdate/index.html
Carlotto's new findings are based
upon photos taken in April 1998 by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), which
obtained three high resolution images of the region containing the City
and Face. Although NASA and JPL immediately dismissed the Face and other
objects as natural surface features, Carlotto says, research presented
at the 1998 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Spring Meeting in Boston suggested
otherwise.
"Detailed analysis of the Face
showed a very high degree of lateral symmetry in the platform, found additional
facial features (lips and
nostrils) located along the central axis of symmetry, and confirmed
the
presence of unusual linear features on the head," Carlotto writes.
"Continued research over the past
year has revealed other anomalies in these images, including strange features
at the base of the City Pyramid and Face, what appears to be ice at the
bottom of at least one crater in the area, further indications of sedimentary
rock and water erosion in this part of Mars, and various quasi-geometric
patterns including a triangularly shaped feature north of the City," says
Carlotto.
Detailed analysis of the MGS photos
can be found at Carlotto's website.
"As we await additional photographs over Cydonia... new and subtle patterns
are being discovered in existing images," he writes. "Clearly not the buildings
and roads many scientists expected to see. But are they Martian geology,
or something else?
"In the process of trying to better
understand these land forms,
researchers have found evidence of water erosion throughout Cydonia
including indications of water eroded sedimentary rock, and liquid water
frozen at the bottom of at least one crater in the area. These findings
suggest that water was present on Mars far longer than originally thought,
and may still be present in Cydonia.
"But how do we tell the difference
between highly eroded natural
landforms and artificial structures? In terrestrial archaeology this
is a
question that is easily answered by digging. But the Mars anomalies
are
forcing us to think more deeply about this question, to develop metrics
for detecting planetary intelligence that go beyond simply finding (or
not
finding) buildings and roads, metrics that hopefully will be validated
one
day when archaeologists finally do dig in Cydonia," Carlotto concludes.