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It begs the question then as to whether researchers have found some faces on Mars because those artifacts happened to be faces, or because they kept looking for things they would unconsciously recognize like a Rorschach Test of inkblots. We might then be more familiar with faces and preferentially search for them in clouds for example, hence the term pareidolia. Lewis and Ellis also question as to whether our expertise at recognizing faces is instinctive or comes with experience. While the face was most easily recognized and caught the attention of the public, others formations were found such as a complex geometric pattern of mounds. Other papers tried to form a hypothesis about these formations. was another of the first peer reviewed papers to examine the Cydonia Face in the Viking images. Many could be explained by pareidolia while a few were much harder to dismiss. Some then found face-like or other artificial looking shapes and began to analyze as the Cydonia Face. Amateurs and scientists such as in the Society for Planetary SETI Research originally began this research because of the public availability of these images from NASA online. This problem has often occurred as researchers examined Mars images for possible artifacts. A special part of the brain may recognize faces but not other kinds of Martian formations. Jumbled they are the more time it can take to recognize them. Inverted faces are more difficult to recognize, also the more distorted or It can then be a different kind of ability. Inverted faces are more difficult to recognize, also the more distorted or jumbled they are the more time it can take to recognize them. Recognizing faces, often referred to as pareidolia, is sometimes considered to be an innate ability people have. To have a common origin the Meridiani Face should have an equivalent age of several billion years.
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Other possible artifacts on Mars, such as the Crowned Face in Libya Montes probably date to when Mars had a paleosea and thicker atmosphere. suggest the topography can account for the variations in the dune shapes such as in the Meridiani Face. Another hypothesis is the crater rim shields them from enough wind to migrate them significant distances. One hypothesis is there is an unknown process stopping these dunes migrating, saltation occurs as the dunes change shape but do not move significant distances. Dune fields in Meridiani Planum craters are probably formed from layers of volcanic ash, these are usually constrained within the crater rim. By comparing them to naturally formed dunes the discrepancies between the two processes are shown. It is proposed that this is falsified by the shape of these dunes, to be artificial they would have had to be moved to their current positions. The null hypothesis is that this is a random dune formation, an example of people’s innate ability to see faces. The Meridiani Face was discovered around early June 2007 by a Mars researcher Terry James, ( Figure 1). Meridiani planum Barchan dune Aeolian process pareidolia Dune migration Introduction The implicit hypothesis was that a new overlay would match the two faces even more closely, this has been borne out with the Crowned Face HiRise image and the Meridiani Face CTX image. The similarity between the Crowned Face in the King’s Valley Libya Montes and the Meridiani Face was originally shown with an overall. This can allow for the formation to be very old and remain intact. Some dark dune fields can migrate large distances in Meridiani Planum, others remain confined in larger craters perhaps by shielding them from the wind. It is similar to the Nefertiti formation in that it seems to be made of dark soil, dunes in this case. The Meridian Face has some similar features to the Cydonia and Crowned Faces such as having a crown. Received: SeptemAccepted: NovemPublished: December 25, 2016Ĭitation: Greg O.