The Face
at Meridiani on Mars
by kksamurai
Actually found at Arabia Meridiani ... When I found this spectacular face-like structure while boringly surfing Mars images via the Armchair Astronaut in April of 1999, I have to admit I almost fell out of my chair with the rush of excitement that went through me!
Mars coordinates on the Armchair Astronaut
are
Lat
9.5 degrees, Lon - 8.5 degrees.
For those that prefer to know the more
commonly used coordinate
reporting method, the approximate Mars
Coordinates are
Lat 9.5 degrees, Lon 351.5 degrees.
Most people seem to recognize it as a face upon first seeing it. In fact, many people believe this structure looks more like a modern humanoid face than most others found on Mars, to date. The Face at Arabia Meridiani is also much larger (in fact about 19 times larger) than the well known Face at Cydonia.
Unlike the Face at Cydonia, this face has been photographed upwards of 15 times at various times of the year and under varying lighting conditions. Like the Face at Cydonia, there are file photos from the Viking and Mars Global Surveyor or Mars Orbital Camera programs. A study of all photographs to date indicate that what we see is really there ... It's real, folks ... And as a matter of record, the USGS has confirmed the legitimacy of the data in some well known e-mail correspondence.
I've been studying all available data on
The Face at Meridiani and its surrounding features since finding it in
April of 1999 and must report that its enigmatic existence is most perplexing.
As the following three image compilation will demonstrate, if we
adjust gamma, we can see much more than just the obvious humanoid face
in this crater ...

As you can see in the above compilation, on the left there appear to be linear walls associated with the face structure that form right angles on their ends. Even more interesting, in the image on the right, the hi-albedo (brighter) area of the crater directly above the Face at Meridiani, there appears to be a second, slightly larger and more artistic Face when the data is darkened. This second Face also appears to come complete with an ornate head-dress ...
If you've ever studied Meso-American
art and sculpture, the following illustration could be representative
of what we see ...
And for those that don't quite see what I'm talking about ...
The latest MOC images taken at much higher resolution than the older Viking data also confirm the existence of this magnificent Face at Arabia Meridiani ...
It's a face! A very large humanoid face on Mars!
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And for those that have often said that this face is "flat" and has no elevation, I direct you to this link...
http://palermoproject.com/lowell2004/arabiamola.GIF
The MOLA data has been overlaid on this crater... It has definition & elevation.
What this MOLA image clearly illustrates is that the crater floor has a sharp rise in it at the area of the face.
Special thanks to Robert Smith and John
Levassuer
at Dangerzone Productions for their creation
of the Mola data.
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And for those of you who think I've made
this face up go to the link in following image and
key in the coordinates yourself!
I'm sure there will still be those that
have their doubts, but I feel reasonably certain that most readers
can do nothing
but agree that this enigmatic Martian
structure known as the Face at Meridiani provides more credible evidence
for the existence of a past intelligent
civilization on the Planet Mars.
kksamurai
Send your questions or comments to KK
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