Phobos and Deimos are in near-perfect “circular” orbits — so perfect that they have “eclipsed” many times under the watchful eyes of Spirit and Opportunity.

Methinks it would have been better for you Earthlings if WD5 had impacted Mars.

NASA stated that neither orbiting Martian satellites nor Martian rovers imaged WD5′s “near-miss” — so what did?

One Down and Eight to Go,

Metatron

P.S. Live Free or Die.

The structure is a monument to ME, Victor Von Doom! I traveled billions of years back in time, conquered the inhabitants of the Red Planet, and forced them to sculpt it for me!

THUS SPAKE DOOM!

Classic example – Lowell’s “Canals” on Mars.

That Mars was crisscrossed with canals was virtually a given of any teaching involved with the red planet, until Mariner IV took the first close-up images and showed that the canals did not exist. Even that did not dissuade the believers; as a child, I can remember my brother telling me that “Mars is covered with mysterious canals which don’t show up in photographs!”

Wow.

As I zoomed in and out, I saw lots of image compression features. No doubt RCH had a field day with those. But it’s amazing to see this land formation in such incredible detail!

What caused the thick rim to the left side (as seen in the canonical pictures) and the thinner and slightly more distant rim on the right side?

What, geologically, is the thing?

LOL, I should have picked up on that, my bad ;-P

Flip the photo 180 degrees. The lighter parts of the photo clearly show the Grinch in profile, his left eye closed, his lower lip jutting.

If it isn’t the Grinch, it must be the Virgin Mary, and with a mug like that, no wonder she was a virgin.

What we are saying is that the resemblance to a face is a coincidental combination of the geometry of the mesa combined with the overhead viewing angle and the specific lighting angle from the Sun.

a dropped pixel or two didn’t hurt, either. That is why only one side has any face-like features, the “eye” on the other side is a missing part of the image.

And everyone knows what happens when you “assume” something…

Zapp: “The great stone face of Mars. Hmm, the only known entrance to the marsian reservation.”
Leela: “What about the great stone ass of Mars?”
Zapp: “Well, yeah. But it’s way on the other side of the planet.”

I love that show.

’twas a Trek refference…was hoping it wasn’t too obscure.
Ah, well. ;-P

(“Time’s Arrow”)

Proof of Zeus.

Or, if you lean your head to the right almost upside-down, it takes the shape of an Egyptian death mask.

Proof of… of… Tutankhamun. Wait, we already have proof of him… but it’s even MORE proof. Space aliens built the pyramids.

I rest my case. Until I can think of another case.

Wait! I just leaned my head again. If I squint, it almost looks like a woman leaning HER head, like that Venus-on-a-shell painting. I am racking up the proof like gangbusters, unbelievers.