Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 02:29:49 -0400
From: galevy  [Gary Alevy]
To: UFO UpDate 
Subject: NASA pseudo-science
07:49 PM ET 04/06/98
NASA images show Mars ``face'' is just a hill
            LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA released a new photograph of
Mars on Monday showing that the so-called ``Face on Mars'' is
only a hill.
            The image, taken by the Mars Surveyor circling the red
planet, gave scientists the closest look yet at the surface
feature that appears to resemble a human face. The face in the
Cydonia region of Mars had come to light after it appeared in
pictures taken by the 1976 Viking mission.
            Some scientists since then have speculated that the
``face''
was not a one-mile long natural feature, but rather might be a
monument surrounded by pyramids, suggesting some kind of life on
Mars.
            But the image released Monday on the the web site of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration put that theory to
rest.
            ``It looks like a natural figure,'' said spokeswoman Diane
Ainsworth.
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How can a 'theory be put to rest' when NASA has in no way
done any kind of scientific comparison of the images.
1. NASA has not demonstrated that the images were
taken of the same location.
2. NASA did not make the data available in realtime.
3. The absence of features in the surrounding terrain
to make an appropriate image comparison raises more
questions than can be answered by what ever it is that
the have included in the image.
Gary
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