to the website of NASAs High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE. The image was transmitted to Earth on Sunday, and retrieved from the. It is a transition zone between the southern highlands and the northern plains, and it contains wide valleys and ancient remnant mounds, called massifs, of many shapes and sizes. Given the potential impact of this phenomena on our culture, the collection of a few high resolution photographs of the face and other nearby objects should. After a 1976 photo of the face on Mars gained popularity and provoked. Shortly after midnight Sunday morning (5 April 1998 12:39 AM PST), the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft successfully acquired a high resolution image of the 'Face on Mars' feature in the Cydonia region. If the 1.2 mpp image is grayscale, meaning 8-bit data, it by definition carries less. The feature known as the Face, along another skull-like feature and pyramid-looking hills in the vicinity, are in an area called Cydonia in the Arabia Terra region. Most of us assume that an image with a stated resolution of 1.2 meters per pixel is automatically better than an image of 13.7 mpp, such as these new Mars Express images. 'They not only provide a completely fresh and detailed view of an area so famous to fans of space myths all around the world, but also provide an impressive close-up over an area of great interest for planetary geologists, and show once more the high capability of the Mars Express camera,' said Agustin Chicarro, ESA Mars Express project scientist. The data was obtained in July and the images released today. Mission controllers prepared to look again. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Browse 2,343 venus planet stock photos and images available, or search for mercury planet or jupiter planet to find more great stock photos and pictures. The spacecraft's High Resolution Stereo Camera provides data the researchers turn into colorized perspective views, which simulate the scene as though you were flying high over the region in an aircraft. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98 - a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. Jim Garvin, currently the chief scientist of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center created a potential hiking map of the face, with a great. New images from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter will confirm for many that the features are natural, while no doubt offering tantalizing 'clues' to others of an ancient intelligent civilization at work.

High def image of the face of mars