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[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Cydonia Region on Mars

This is the most recent image of the "Face" on Mars taken 05 May 2004. It isn't as washed out as the one NASA released to the public a few years back when it was revisted. This one is released by the THEMES satellite, currently orbiting Mars.

Raw high resolution images here from the THEMES site: themis-data.asu.edu/img/V10598012.html

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If you believe it's a face from a long extinct culture or just a mesa on the surface of Mars, either way it looks quite cool.

[Centaur]

How "washed out" it appears depends on the incoming angle of sunlight. The human mind is wired to see faces (or animals) in almost anything, including clouds and landforms. It would be amazing if out of the countless landforms on Mars, at least one did not look like a face.

Click below for a discussion of the subject at BadAstronomy.com. It includes a photo lit from another side.
www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/face.html

[Maddad]

Somebody's been having fun in photoshop to get that face-on-Mars image out of the raw data.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Dave,

No, in this case it is as is seen from the THEMES probe. If you click on the link and allow the large image to download, it's as shown.

An interesting feature regardless.