Mars face mystery - Can/will the rovers solve this one?

[Kevin Sevcik]

NASA's already attempted to solve the "mystery", you know. MGS took a rather high resolution picture with better lighting. It doesn't look much like a face now if you ask me. give that picture to someone the doesn't know what it's supposed to be and I bet less than 1 in 20 say it's a face. Rotate it 180 degrees and it'll be even lower. In my opinion if something is clearly of artificial construction, it should be easily recognizable, even in a non-preferred orientation. Wouldn't you be horribly confused if people suddenly completely stopped looking like a person when they did a handstand? And imagine the plight of the poor person doing the handstand....

[KenWittlief]

I went on one of those tourist cave-exploring tours once. There was one outcropping inside the cave with two lights set up.

When they turned on one light it looked just like President Lincoln. When they turned the other light on it looked just like President Washington.

We have excellent pattern recognition abilities in our brains - we tend to see faces in all sorts of things that dont have faces. I think that original photo of Mars is one of those 'things'.