The “Face on Mars”:

This short article presents an alternative view of high resolution imaging from various sources with the aim of the discovery of potential sites of archaeological importance, or sites that exhibit “anomalies” such that they may merit closer inspection and analysis. Use is made of the infamous photos of Cydonia on Mars, and in particular of the site that became anecdotally known as the “face on Mars”, following the 1976 Viking photos under low resolution. It is conjectured, and to a certain extent demonstrated here, that it is possible for advanced civilizations to factor in erosion by natural processes into a large scale design so that main features be preserved even with the passage of millions of years. Alternatively viewed, even without such intent embedded in a design left for posterity, it is possible that a gigantic construction may naturally decay in such a way that even cataclysmic (massive) events may leave sufficient information intact with the passage of time, provided one changes the point of view from high resolution images to enhanced blurred renderings of the sites in question. If one takes the intentional design for erosion to be taken into account, then it is also possible to conjecture that it is not necessary for the original structure (“monument”) to be designed such that it resembles something if viewed at high resolution in the first place; in fact it is possible to treat elements in the environment as large scale “pixels”, as natural monolithic blocks, so that when viewed from a distance under slightly unfocused conditions they produce the desired effect, thus lasting for millennia. In terms as to how such an enormous project can be accomplished one does not need to think in terms of detailed painstaking work, but rather once a design is conceived then even large scale catastrophic “sculpting” (large scale explosions) can achieve the desired effect. In this work, it is shown that the photo of 1976 by Viking, showing an impression of an “alien” face when viewed with some