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Volume 16: Number 3: Article 5
Face-Like Feature at West Candor Chasma, Mars MGS Image AB108403
Horace W. Crater, The University of Tennessee Space Institute, B.
H. Goethert Parkway, Tullahoma, TN, 37388-8897
Jean Pierre Levasseur, Northern Maine Technical College,
Preque Isle, ME, 04769
We desribe aspects of a skull-like feature found in Mars Global Surveyor
(MGS) image AB108403. The skull-like feature becomes face-like when
one recognizes the presence of component facial features of appropriate
size and shape, features such as cheek, chin, and neck. Further component
features of the image including eyes, nose, and mouth combine to give
the impression of a human-like face. A special analysis of the eyes
is undertaken, one involving two independent eye specialists. We then
undertake a critical analysis including a comparison of natural head
or face-like features on earth as well as a probability analysis of
the possibility that the features could have appeared randomly. Our
analysis suggests that natural and/or random processes fail to provide
a satisfactory explanation for is formation. Among others, we also describe
a flat facial profile found in a statistical survey for other eye-like
features on Mars. The Profile has an identifiable eye, nose, lips, cheek,
and neck. Unlike natural head-like features found on earth, which tend
to be grotesque and quite angular, both the Skullface image and the
Profile image have relatively smooth and proportionate facial features.
Keywords: Mars, face-like feature
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Face-Like Feature at West Candor Chasma, Mars MGS Image AB108403
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