Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Orbiter Camera
Face-to-Face with the "Face"
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-275, 31 January 2001
(A) Cydonia Image Locations April 2000 - January 2001
Each full image is provided in list below
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(B) "Face" Close-up
from M16-00184
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In April 2000 we
presented all the images
that had been taken in the Cydonia region of Mars up
until that time. This is the area where popular books, magazine articles,
tabloids and other news/infotainment media have speculated that
some of the hills and mesas were artificially-shaped by extraterrestrial
intelligence into forms such as a pyramid, a cone, and, most publicized,
a face. Owing to this continuing interest, the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team
has, whenever the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has flown over the
region, commanded the MOC to take a picture. This page releases all
images acquired since April 2000. Picture A, above, shows the locations
of the MOC high resolution views obtained since April 2000. Picture B shows
a section of one of these, MOC image M16-00184, which shows a portion of
the famed "face" landform. Picture B covers an area 1.1 km (0.7 mi) across
and 3.0 km (1.9 mi) down and is the highest-resolution view ever obtained
for this feature (1.7 meters-- 5.6 feet-- per pixel). Links to all of the
other pictures are given below.
The April 2000 - January 2001 Cydonia Images:
The links below are to each of the images shown in
Figure A, above. Note that gaps in the data caused by ground
data system outages are shown in this figure but are not
individually labelled. Owing to their large size, you should
download the images using the links below to you computer using
your web-browser, and then open them in an image processing
program like Adobe Photoshop®. If you try to view
these images directly in your web-browser, you will probably get
a "broken picture"icon.
Image Links
M14-00709 (1.1
MBytes)
M15-00479 (3.5
MBytes)
M16-00184 (5.5
MBytes)
M18-00606 (5.7
MBytes)
M19-00850 (4.7
MBytes)
M19-01441 (1.5
MBytes)
M22-00378 (6.1
MBytes)
M22-02223 (2.0 MBytes)
CLICK HERE for ancillary data for these images
Images Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Malin Space Science Systems and the California Institute of
Technology built the MOC using spare hardware from the Mars Observer
mission. MSSS operates the camera from its facilities in San Diego,
CA. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Surveyor Operations Project
operates the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft with its industrial
partner, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, from facilities in Pasadena, CA
and Denver, CO.
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