Steve Sloan wrote:
>
>No, the picture of the Face was a real picture, taken by one of
>the Viking orbiters. At the exact moment the picture was taken,
>with the right lighting and view angle, that particular surface
>feature looked like a face. When another Mars orbiter took a
>photo of the "Face" a few years ago, it didn't look anything
>like a face. The "Face" was a cool coincidence and a cool
>picture that probably won't ever be repeated.
>
Is this the official story? The truth is that NASA crashed a
probe over that face to destroy it, and then took the second
picture. They even invented a myth about the Evil of
using metric units to justify that.
Alberto Monteiro
<serious>
Of course this is a joke - but it's even harder to admit
that a multi-million dollar probe was lost because some
jerk was still thinking in feet and miles :-)
</serious>
