Cydonia is the name of a region on Mars with some very interesting landforms. It was first described by astronomers using Earthbound telescopes, and then it was imaged in much more detail by NASA’s Viking 1 and Viking 2 orbiters.
It is best known for the unusual images sent back to Earth by the Viking spacecraft. One image showed a landform that looked a bit like a face. And another showed pictures that looked like pyramids on Mars. It’s hard to deny that the original image looked like a face, but the most recent images sent back by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that it’s nothing more than a mesa with collapsed walls.
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The fact that it looks like a face is an optical illusion, known as pareidolia. The human mind is efficient at recognizing faces, which is why we see faces everywhere: in the front of cars, in the knots in trees, and in clouds. Another feature of Cydonia are the pyramids. In the low resolution Viking images, they look like pyramids seen from above.
Explores claims made by “Mars anomalists” that the Cydonia region of Mars (the region with the “Face on Mars”) was constructed, designed, or arranged by intelligent aliens. The movie takes you through the context of the claim, some of the math behind it, an exploration of the “null hypothesis” (what the results would be if it were purely random), and draws conclusions based on the latest orbital imagery of Mars.
Are There Pyramids on Mars? The Cydonia Mars' Mysterious Region Explored
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