NIBIRAN ALALU'S FACE ON MARS NASA DEFACED TO HIDE ET ACTIVITY
by Sasha Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, U.C.L.A.)
NIBIRAN ALALU'S FACE ON CYNDONIA MARS NASA DEFACED TO HIDE ET ACTIVITY
On the planet Nibiru, the long-orbiting (it came near Earth every 3,600
Earth-years) tenth planet of our solar system, there dwelt a technologically
highly-evolved civilization of humans. United under a single king.
500,000 years ago, Nibiru's protective shield weakened. The thick atmosphere
thinned. [Tellinger, M., 2006, Slave Species of god, page 88, 98]
To Nibiru's King Lahma, "In the councils of the learned, to heal the breach in
the atmosphere there were two suggestions.
(1)"Use gold, within the Hammered Belt [Asteroids] abundant. To finest powder,
gold could be ground, lofted high to heaven, suspended it could remain. With
replenishment, the breach it would heal. Let celestial boats [rockets] the gold
to Nibiru bring over.
(2) "Let weapons of Terror [nukes] be created, the missiles the volcanoes to
attack, their dormancy to bestir, their belching to increase, the atmosphere to
replenish, the breach to make disappear."
But "For a decision Lahma was too feeble; what choice to make he knew not."
Every clockwise orbit around the Sun, Nibiru lost more air Nibirans needed
desperately to smooth their temperature and let them live. One Nibiran year,
remember, is 3,600 Earth orbits of the sun. For four Nibiran years (204,000
Earth years), the King fretted, couldn't decide: nuke the volcanoes or send
miners to the Asteroids? Meanwhile, Nibiru's air bled into space. [Sitchin, Z.,
2002, The Lost Book of Enki pages 32 - 33]
PRINCE ALALU KILLS NIBIRU'S KING LAHMA
Prince Alalu, descended from Nibiru's forth king, Anshurgal (and a
concubine)confronted the King from atop the palace's highest tower. "We need a
king who acts now. Not you; you dither while we all die. I'm taking over now,
before we lose what's left of our atmosphere." Alalu hurled Lahma from the
tower, then proclaimed himself King of Nibiru.
ALALU GIVES DAUGHTER TO EA FOR FEALTY FROM ANU
Anu, a prince descended from King An's youngest son declared he, not Alalu,
should succeed Lahma. But Alalu told Anu, "Wed our children--my daughter
Damkina; your son Ea; I rule and civil war we forestall." Anu agreed; he
canceled the betrothal his daughter Ninmah had proclaimed with Ea. Instead of
Nimah, Ea wed Damkina [Sitchin, Z., 2010, There Were Giants Upon the Earth, page
249].
Ninmah pined for Ea, but sought solace in sex with her (and Ea's) half-brother
Enlil, a dashing military man. When Ninmah bore Enlil's son Ninurta, Papa Anu
angrily forbade her marriage to anyone ever.
Enlil, who before the Anu-Alalu marriage deal, would, by the Nibiran Succession
Law, have succeeded Anu as Nibiru's king, lost his claim to the throne. The
first male born of Ea and Damkina, Anu and Alalu agreed, would rule Nibiru and
bring together the descent lines of both grandfathers, Alalu and Anu.
Ea and Damkina had a boy, Marduk. The pact between Anu and Alalu pledged
Marduk–not Enlil--would one day rule Nibiru. Deal in place, Anu pledged fealty
to Alalu. Alalu, now acknowledged as King, made Anu his Cupbearer. [Sitchin, Z.,
The Wars of Gods and Men, 1985, page 84]
ALALU, DEPOSED BY ANU, NUKES TO EARTH, FINDS GOLD, THREATENS NIBIRU
King Alalu didn't--though he tried--save Nibiru's air. To create overcast that
would hold the air, he nuked the volcanoes, but this didn't yield enough
overcast. He next sent a rocket to the Asteroids for gold to powder and spread
as a shield for Nibiru's atmosphere. But the ship crashed into an asteroid; all
aboard died. Nine more Nibiran years (nine sars, orbits of Nibiru around
Solaris–32,400 Earth years) passed and Alalu still hadn't stopped Nibiru's air
loss.
Cupbearer Anu raged at Alalu's failure to protect and replenish Nibiru's
atmosphere, He cited Nibiru law and proclaimed himself rightful king. He
challenged Alalu.
"Anu gave battle to Alalu. To hand-to-hand combat, with bodies naked, Alalu he
challenged. Alalu in combat was defeated; by acclaim Anu was hailed as king."
[Sitchin, Z., The Lost Book of Enki pages 24 - 39]
Alalu stole a rocketship loaded with nuclear missiles his men had used in their
failed attempt to stimulate Nibiru's volcanoes to regenerate an atmospheric
shield for the planet. Alalu launched the rocket for Earth. He blasted through
the stones of the Asteroid Belt. He nuked them from his path with some of the
missiles.
Alalu landed in the Persian Gulf, anchored his rocket, and made his way to
shore. He confirmed gold in the Gulf. From Earth, he controlled the gold Nibiru
needed to survive. The gold gave him power over the home planet. In addition,
Alalu positioned his nukes to blast Nibiru when it next passed Earth. Alalu thus
dangled gold as a carrot and menaced missiles as a stick.
"The Speaker-of-Words he stirred up; toward Nibiru the words to carry."To Anu on
Nibiru he beamed, "On another world I am, the gold of salvation I have found.
The fate of Nibiru is in my hands. To my conditions you must give heed! Return
my throne" [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 60]
Back on Nibiru, the Council heard Alalu's demands. Enlil, King Anu's Foremost
Son, beamed Alalu back, "Prove there's ample gold on Earth." Alalu transmitted
his data to Nibiru. Enlil impugned Alalu's data. Enlil and the Council begged
Anu to resist Alalu's attempt to regain rule.
The scientist Ea, Firstborn Son of Anu as well as Alalu's son-in-law, told the
Council he'd rocket to Earth. He'd verify or deny enough gold to send miners
whether Anu or Alalu ruled Nibiru. "If from gold dust of Earth a shield for
Nibiru its atmosphere to save," said Ea, "let Alalu Earth rule as King. For
kingship on Nibiru, let him wrestle Anu".
"Let me in a chariot [rocket] to Earth journey, a path through the Bracelet
[Asteroids] with water, not fire [Alalu used nuclear missiles to get through the
Asteroids] I shall fashion. On Earth, from the waters let me the precious gold
to obtain; to Nibiru back it will be sent." [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of
Enki, page: 66]
Anu endorsed Ea's plan and sent him with Alalu's kinsman, pilot Anzu and fifty
men to Earth. Ea had pre-empted the mission his half-brother Enlil coveted.
Enlil seethed while Ea and Anzu blasted for Earth. Enlil, who'd wanted the
Earth mission, seethed while Ea and Anzu rocketed through space to their meeting
with Alalu on Earth.
As Ea rocketed through the asteroid belt he diverted water from his ship's
propulsion system to his water canon and blasted rocks from his path. Critical
Water depletion, Anzu warned; propulsion failure immanent. Mars' waters could
save them.
So Ea and Anzu landed on Mars. Not only did Mars have water, but it had an
atmosphere too. "The water was good for drinking but the air was insufficient
for breathing," which means they needed their "Eagle's helmets to breathe."
[Tellinger, M., 2006, Slave Species of god, page 432] On Mars, they drew water
from a lake. [Sumerian records on clay tablets unambiguously indicate water on
Mars (long before Twenty-First Century scientists documented water's presence
there)].
Rocket's water replenished, Ea blasted for Earth, "its gold Nibiru's fate for
salvation or doom containing." [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki page
71]
"The chariot must be slowed or in Earth' thick atmosphere it will perish" Anzu
the pilot to Ea said. They circled Earth a few times to slow the ship. Then they
entered the atmosphere and hurtled toward planetfall. Earth's gravity gripped
the rocket and sped it too fast for a dry landing. "[Tellinger, M., 2006, Slave
Species of god: page 443] So, 443,000 years ago, they splashed into the Persian
Gulf. Alalu guided them ashore.
Ea built a settlement, Eridu, at the head of the Persian Gulf, near modern
Basara. From Gulf waters, he extracted some gold. He built a plane, and with
his personal pilot, Abgal, flew all over the planet searching for more gold.
Nibiran scientists powdered the gold into fine dust and experimented with it;
they could use it, they reported, to disperse as contrails in the air and shield
Nibiru's atmosphere. "Get more gold quick", they said. Anu beamed Earth: "Send
us Alalu's ship with all gold you gathered."
So Ea and Abgal entered Alalu's spacecraft. In it they found seven nuclear
missiles. They hid the nukes in a cave in the African Great Lakes area (these
are the missiles that'll later be used by Enlil's son Ninurta and Ea's son
Nergal to nuke Sodom, Gomorra and the Sinai Spaceport). Anzu, the
interplanetary pilot, saw no missiles when he came to ready Alalu's rocket to
return to Nibiru.
Anzu confronted Ea. Anzu confronted Ea. "When to Earth we flew, only water
cannon did we use to blast through the Asteroids, nearly killing our engine due
to water wasted blasting rocks. To return to Nibiru, nuclear missiles you took
from this ship are needed."
Ea retorted, "This rocket you cannot with your attitude pilot. Foresworn is the
weapons' use. Replaced you are Anzu as interplanetary pilot. Abgal, who pilots
my craft, will return Alalu's ship to Nibiru while here on Earth with your
kinsman Alalu you, Anzu, must remain. And with water cannon only shall Abgal
navigate the asteroids. [Sitchin, Z., 2002,The Lost Book of Enki, page 82].
Ea programmed a return route through the Asteroids and Abgal flew the spacecraft
to Nibiru with sample gold to test as an atmospheric shield there.
On Nibiru, scientists processed the gold "to make of it the finest dust, to
skyward launch it was hauled away. A Shar [one orbit of Nibiru around the Sun,
equal to 3,600 Earth] did the fashioning last, a Shar did the testing continue.
With rockets was the dust heavenward carried, by crystals' beams was it
dispersed.
"[But] when Nibiru near the Sun came, the golden dust was by its rays disturbed;
the healing in the atmosphere was dwindled, the breach to bigness returned."
[Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 86]
King Anu sent Abgal back to Earth for more gold.
When he got to Earth, Abgal learned Ea'd extracted little gold. Water
extraction yielded pitifully little. Ea again sent Abgal to Nibiru with the
Persian Gulf's yield.
Ea flew over Africa, prospecting for gold. He found gold, huge veins of it, in
southeast Africa (Abzu). Jubilant, he announced his find to Nibiru.
Back on Nibiru, King Anu and Enlil received Ea's news of vast veins of gold.
Enlil, angry still that brother Ea led the Earth Mission, demanded proof, not
just of gold, but of lots of gold. Said Enlil, "False hope Ea gave already that
gold enough could from Earth's waters could Nibiru's atmosphere save."
"Then You take charge on Earth," Anu replied. Assess the gold there."
Enlil made landfall on Earth and examined Ea's find. Enlil beamed back to
Nibiru that, despite his initial doubts, Earth probably had gold enough to save
Nibiru's atmosphere.
But the basic rivalry between Ea and Enlil (that plagues Earth to this day)
surfaced again.
"Father Anu", Enlil beamed from Earth to Nibiru, "Affirm, by the law of
succession, that I, your son by your own half-sister Antu, precede and have
authority over Ea, though, he, your eldest son, be."
"Come to Earth, Enlil begged Anu, "Make Enki obey me."
Enlil warned Anu he'd have to deal with Alalu too: "Alalu yells he's King of
Earth and Nibiru."
So, 416, 000 years ago, Anu flew to Earth.
On Earth, King Anu put three straws in his right hand, held them out to Ea and
Enlil: Whoever draws the long straw rules Nibiru. Draw the short straw and you
command Earth. Middle-sized straw: run mining and sea transport.
"By their lots the tasks they divided; Anu to Nibiru to return, its ruler on the
throne to remain.
"The Edin [Mesopotamia] to Enlil was allotted, to be Lord of Command, more
settlements to establish, of the skyships and their heros charge to take. Of all
the lands until they the bar of the seas encounter, the leader to be.
"To Ea the seas and the oceans as his domain were granted, lands beyond the bar
of the waters by him to be governed, in the Abzu [southeastern Africa] to be the
master, with ingenuity the gold to procure." [Sitchin, Z., The Lost Book of
Enki, 2002, pages 92 -93]. Enlil'd already displaced by Enlil as Anu's successor
on Nibiru, now Enlil, "this rival, this robber of Ea's birthright" commanded him
on Earth.
But Enlil's first act conciliated Ea. Enlil forever gave Eridu (the settlement
Ea'd created on the Persian Gulf) to Ea. Enlil bestowed the title, EN.KI,
EARTH'S LORD, on Ea [Sitchin, Z., 1985, The Wars of Gods and Men, page 81]
No sooner did Anu and his sons divide rule of Nibiru and Earth, then "forward
toward Anu Alalu stepped, shouted, `Mastery of Earth to me was allotted; that
was the promise when the gold finds to Nibiru I announced! Nor have I the claim
to Nibiru's throne forsaken.'" [Sitchin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page
93]
Anu wrestled Alalu. They grappled. [Sitchin, Z., 1985, The Wars of Gods and
Men, page 86]
"Anu on the chest of Alalu with his foot pressed down, victory in the wrestling
thereby declaring, `I am King.'"
But when Anu lifted his foot from Alalu, "swiftly he the manhood of Anu bit off,
the malehood of Anu Alalu did swallow.!"
Enlil tied Alalu up while Ea gave Anu first-aid. "Alalu," Anu groaned, "will
slowly die from my seed." [Sitchin, Z., 1985, The Wars of Gods and Men, page
94]
Anu condemned the sickened and doomed Alalu to spend his last days on
Mars. The Nibirans knew Alalu would die soon from biting Anu's penis. "There
was apparently something in the "flesh" of others that killed anyone who
consumed it." [Tellinger, M. 2006, Slave Species of god, page 438]
So Anu, on his way back to Nibiru, stopped on Mars, where he freed the dying
Alalu with food and tools. Anu also left Alalu's kinsman Anzu--the
interplanetary pilot Ea had discharged--to tend Alalu's until he died.
NINMAH, ENROUTE TO EARTH, SAVES ANZU ON MARS, STARTS MARSBASE
ALALU'S FACE CARVED AT CYNDONIA THERE
When King Anu got back on Nibiru, he told the Council his plans to hunt
throughout the Solar System. He ordered continuous freight rockets to and from
Earth. He said rockets would shuttle among way-stations on Mars, Earth's Moon,
other planets and satellites between Nibiru and the Sun.
King Anu sent his daughter Ninmah with female health officers to Earth. Stop on
the way, at Mars, he said. If Anzu lives, give him men to start a base
there.
On Mars Ninmah found Alalu and Anzu dead. She revived Anzu.
To commemorate Alalu who discovered the gold that can save Nibiru, Ninmah and
Anzu, "The image of Alalu upon the great rock mountain [Cyndonia] with beams
they carved. They showed him wearing an eagle's helmet; his face they made
uncovered." [Sitchin, Z.,, 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 104].
FOR MORE OF THE STORY, SEE
www.enkispeaks.comHere's some info I got from the web on the coverup; it's at
http://members.aol.com/JCCunn/face2001.htm for webpage
THE FACE: STARING OUT INTO SPACE
Unmistakably Human features on a giant mound, reminiscent of the Sphinx,
beckoning us to its home planet, where who knows how many other mysteries await
our attention.
A mountain, a quarter mile high and two miles across, strongly resembling a Human face, has been ridiculed by NASA officials and the media at large as "a trick of light nd shadow." But the Face has brought our attention to a very special archaeological site on the planet Mars. Could the builders of Cydonia have actually designed the site to be a timeless message in stone ? Could they have intended for the Face to be instantly recognized by their distant descendants ? Could the Face possibly have been altered, and purposely damaged by our own astronauts?
What one piece of substantial evidence would possibly cause people to believe
that life, Human life, was once thriving on the planet Mars? Of all the amazing
things discovered in the 20th century this one chance find could prove to be the
pinnacle turning point in our modern history. But NASA officials and the media
at large dismiss the Face - easily poking fun at the many, once esteemed,
scientists who dare to analyze it. And analyze it, they have - but what they've
found goes against everything our society is founded on.
Most Cydonia investigators have put their careers on the line, and even their
health in jeopardy, searching for a truth too possible to ignore - and too
important to write off as fantasy. Even admitting their arguments are well
based, that the inescapable conclusions may possibly have some merit, and that
the whole subject warrants further investigation, can put a colleague in the
column of dissent. Thus, many do not - and, the sham goes on.
A veil of secrecy also remains around the recent controversial redating of the
Sphinx - and thus, likely the entire Giza complex, pyramids and all, putting its
construction at approximately 10,500 BC. This date figures in with pre-existing
Atlantis "myths" and the Great Flood of Noah's Ark as well. Thus, Cydonia has
since become a landmark find for serious Atlantis theorists, as it further lends
support to their theories of Man being much older than our history allows.
The main reason why people usually can't subscribe wholeheartedly to the Face
being a real artifact is their struggle with the implications. What it means is:
that there was life on Mars long ago, Humanoid life, and probably our distant
ancestors - thus, our entire view of history must be rewritten. But many of our
current institutions, from government to religion, have a stake in the status
quo - hence the controversy.
Most scientists are not on the cutting edge of research, just regular people
doing their jobs. Dedicated and sincere though they may be - as a group, they're
not particularly excited about any fascinating new discoveries or paradigm
shifts, thank you. Besides, anything extremely off the beaten track, that also
contradicts their research: if proven, could leave them quickly out of a job.
Another reason why guessing wrong early can leave a species perpetually
planetbound - the inability to go where the science leads.
If the Face were an aerial shot of some place on Earth, no one would have any
problem with it. Teams of scientists would immediately be dispatched to the site
to determine its origins - and many believe that this is in fact what has
happened. But even if black project technologies are not yet advanced enough for
this to have occurred as yet, this is most assuredly why it's being kept a
secret. In fact, once we finally get to Mars, as a settling force, these sites
will likely be strictly off limits to all unauthorized personnel.
It is a certainty that Viking I saw what it did, in two different images, on two
different sunny days - one in the mid afternoon, the other closer to early
evening. But even if it is an optical illusion, or as they say, "a trick of
light and shadow," imagine flying over the Face as a tourist or settler a
hundred years from now. The skies over Cydonia might be very crowded on sunny
afternoons, if that turns out to be the only time of day when a Face can be made
out from the contours of the mound. Until then, Carlotto's colorful 3D
renderings (below), taken from the cover of The Case for the Face, may have to
do.
The object in question is approximately 2.5 kilometers long, one kilometer wide,
and 400 meters high. That translates to roughly a mile and a half long, just
over half a mile wide, and a quarter mile high. Of equal megalithic proportion,
in the immediate vicinity of the Face, are many other curious structures of
similar size and interesting arrangement. So, one might easily say: that
absolute proof of Human existence outside of Earth's protective atmosphere has
been leaked to the public from NASA archives. But, until manned missions are
sent to the Cydonia region Mars, and possibly even after, there will always be
skeptics to say that it's just a bizarre coincidence. In the meantime, all we
have to go by are a handful of satellite images - the enhanced versions hotly
disputed my mainstream science.
While the images are enhanced, they are not fake. In image processing terms,
"enhanced" means: to bring out more detail not easily seen in the original
image. The human eye can see about 32 shades of gray, while the raw binary data
from Viking was four times more accurate, at 128. This higher number is
especially helpful in image processing, when more detail becomes visually clear
by simply increasing the contrast in 256 grayscale.
The first step in the Shape From Shading technique, developed and utilized by
Carlotto, is to convert the raw data into pixels. Bear in mind that each pixel
covers an area about 50 meters across (over 160 feet), a total of 250 square
meters. In order to bring out details smaller than this, Pixel Replication
replicates each pixel, thereby making the image larger, - although some
"appropriate" contrast is applied, it does not yet increase the effective
resolution. The next step is Pixel Interpolation, which applies an algorithm to
the data to determine the slope, and therefore the physical shape of the
substance recorded by the imager - in effect, "a statistical analysis of the
data provided by the pixel relationships" which is often able to derive "unseen"
values and thereby recover the original shape of the subject of the photograph.
There are various types of techniques, using different algorithms, taking into
account different groupings of adjacent pixels - each with unique
characteristics and success rates when applied to known objects. These
techniques are otherwise widely accepted as credible, and are basically just
"reverse engineering" the way the camera gathers its data in the first place.
The Starburst Pixel Interleaving Technique (SPIT) was developed by NASA
scientists and Viking frame "rediscoverers" Vincent DiPietro and Gregory
Molenaar, and takes a total of twelve surrounding pixels into account while
converting each pixel into nine of more accurate detail, and thereby tripling
the resolution.
Image enhancement and extrapolation techniques of this sort, and more advanced,
are used extensively today by security and intelligence agencies, and even the
entertainment industry, for anything from clearing up static, to satellite
photography, to (ironically) facial recognition. Even in "the face" of supposed
ridicule for validating observations that the Face on Mars is an artificial
artifact, the science is not being put to question (after all, our world has
been made brighter and clearer because of it). The only thing that people seem
to be bothered by is the inescapable conclusion that there is something
intelligently constructed on the surface of Mars.
Upon further investigation of the original Viking frames and later enhanced
images, other more "subliminal" features eventually presented themselves to
several squinting researchers, working independently. Not all of these
curiosities showed prominence in the high resolution MGS photos released by NASA
in 1998, however - and all are summarily dismissed as merely products of
enhanced noise, somehow coincidentally in both original Viking images.
Closer looks at the Face revealed several interesting and seemingly contextual
artifacts: such as a Pupil, Teeth, a Teardrop (above right), the very noticeable
parallel Stripes or Notches at the side of the helmet (below left). and
especially exciting center symmetrical cross-hatched etchings at the top of the
helmet (below right). The outer shape of the Face mound is a symmetrical oval
with flattened sides, possessing further symmetry and apparent contextual
overall design. In addition, these further details, painting a more detailed
portrait, do tend rule out chance erosion as a likely cause for the increasingly
improbable shape of the mound.
The Pupil did in fact turn out to be a grouping of very dark pixels in the
original data; but the Teardrop (above right), is shown to be an actual surface
feature in recent photos (inset below) - a molehill upon a mountain, of sorts.
Roughly the size of an average suburban dwelling, it too stands out from the
general area, being by far the most prominent object in its local area. The
Teeth remain even more a subject of controversy - but the feature is shown in
modern images to be a ridge parallel to the Lips marking the top and bottom of
the Mouth area. Contextual references will apparently have to be authenticated
by manned archaeological missions. In this case, beauty is in the eye of the
beholder.
Prominent Crossed Lines over the eyes, on the Helmet's top (left), also refused
to vanish upon closer, more modern inspection; and strengthen the initial
impression that the Helmet appears reminiscent of a Pharaonic head-dress, as
seen throughout ancient Egyptian art, the theme of which also being associated
with giant pyramids. Perhaps another outlandish if controversial connection is
to the many depictions of Ancient Astronauts from various cultures worldwide -
only realized as these obvious depictions in modern times, after the invention
of space suits. The side Notches, or Stripes (right), are also shown to be valid
geological features in the MGS images, although perhaps somewhat less prominent
than expected.
Perhaps it is fortunate that Viking flew over and photographed Cydonia, twice -
and both at just the time of day when the Face would be most apparent -
otherwise we may not know about this ancient, fascinating and likely
archaeological site. Who knows how many other sites like this exist on the
planet Mars, showing signs of ancient Human occupation, that we simply haven't
found out about yet? Some, like Elysium (also seen to have the almost requisite
giant pyramidal shaped mounds), are being looked into - but none so far are as
intriguing as the region surrounding the Face.
In 1996, a small group of students at North Kelvenside Secondary School in
Glasgow, Scotland undertook an independent investigation of the Cydonia
anomalies - and got a Martian mound, the NK Pyramid, named after them in the
process. Chris O'Kane, an audio visual technician at the school and the award
winning developer of the Vistamorph panoramic photography system, along with
computer science department head Mike Turner, acquired extensive original image
data from NSSDC, Viking I orbits 3 thru 70 - and recruited prominent Mars
anomaly investigators Stanley McDaniel, Ananda Sirsena and Erol Torun to serve
as scientific advisers for the project.
Working on ordinary PCs, that by today's standards can be considered quite
primitive, they were easily able to discern further details of the Cydonia
Complex, and focused their attention on several anomalies. One of the first
things that they noticed, when examining the 22,000 square mile area, was that
the other objects of Cydonia became more noticeable when the image was tilted so
that the Face could be viewed right side up. While this could be an "artifact"
of the shading provided by the afternoon sun in both images, it could also have
been an intended effect in the site's construction.
The Face itself was discovered to be extremely eroded, or damaged, on the
eastern (shaded) side - as if by the very disaster that transformed the entire
planet. The five sided D&M Pyramid was also examined closely, and observed to be
symmetrically pointing north towards the Face, and to also have a damaged
eastern facet. A number of other anomalies were investigated, all of which are
now being given closer attention by Cydonia investigators.
That spring, they presented their conclusions at the Edinburgh International
Science Festival, which was warmly received by both the audience and the
national media, whose coverage was described by O'Kane as being "on the whole
accurate and responsible." In an email to Dr. Michael Malin, of Malin Space
Science Systems and in charge of Mars Global Surveyor imaging, they requested
that the newly christened NK pyramid be imaged in the upcoming mapping mission.
Malin wrote in his reply to the group that: "we cannot expect to 'hit' any
specific target on Mars. Rather we hope to acquire representative images of many
areas, including Cydonia." This was taken by many as being politely dismissive -
and it was clear that the findings for the group were not being taken openly
seriously by any official source.
From: "A Picture's Worth" by Chris O'Kane - from: The Case for the Face, p. 77
The students concluded that the face is not symmetrical but that the left [east]
side is collapsed, eroded or damaged and does not closely resemble the right
[west] side. The Face does however have clear symmetrical markings in the form
of lines on the forehead.....
A dark circular feature next to the eastern side of the structure is very
unusual in that it does not resemble any other crater in the region which was
studied. It seems to be a deep, dark hole which the sunlight does not
illuminate. We could see the bottom of all craters in this region but we could
not see the bottom of this feature. It was also noted that the axis of symmetry
of the D&M Pyramid points north to intersect the Face.
When we went to Mars this time around, NASA was supposedly looking for
something that we already knew was there. Despite the lack of seriousness
surrounding their official position, NASA has, on the surface, been making every
"reasonable" effort to photograph Cydonia. The only problem is, their data
appears to be altered to more reflect their view on the subject - which is, and
has always been, that the anomalies could not possible be artificial in nature
and that "most scientists" consider it to be merely an optical illusion.
In a somewhat successful attempt to diffuse the mounting public fervor
surrounding the Face on Mars, just one week before a new book by Cydonia
investigative scientists entitled The Case for the Face was released, this
"faceless" Mars Global Surveyor photo (above) was widely released by NASA on
April 5, 1998. Mars Global Surveyor flew over the Cydonia site one sunny Martian
morning and snapped this much clearer picture for us patient Earthlings. NASA
promised they would pay special attention to images gathered of the region, and
it seems on the surface as if they did. A national press release was issued that
politely poked fun at the monument, asking: "does this look like a face to you?"
- but accompanying the snide text were pictures that are out of contrast, and
make the Martian mound resemble a disaster area.
This is an unusual image, in that it was shot not from overhead, but at a 45°
angle - and in the bright lighting of the early morning sun, instead of the
afternoon sunlight and long shadows of the original Viking images. With the only
available high resolution images of the Face being lit from the southeast,
easily obscuring many details, NASA has again come under suspicion of trying to
hide the truth from Face investigators. Although undoubtedly given many
opportunities to photograph the site at multiple camera angles and at different
angles of the sun, a modern high resolution westerly perspective afternoon
picture of the Face has yet to be forthcoming.
The 98 MGS image actually does look like it used to be a face, but somehow
suffered incredible damage - almost as if the evidence were conveniently
destroyed. Some conspiracy theorists charge that the mound was bombed by
clandestine probes, or even black project astronauts stationed on Mars. To be
fair, top secret projects involving manned missions in space would explain much
about the Mars issue, and beyond. But other research has confirmed that the east
side of the Face appeared damaged in the original Viking photos, which is
curiously consistent with other Cydonian monuments - and also with what we know,
and can surmise, of ancient Martian global catastrophes.
In any case, the Face in the new image does appear significantly different from that in the original Viking photos, despite being the most conspicuous object in the region. NASA is using this as simple proof of their calm claim: that the Face is nothing more than "a trick of light and shadow" - thereby dismissing the entire region from public attention. Even if it never was a Face, the right angles incorporated in the object are still inconsistent with the rest of the surroundings - and still by far the most unnatural object by fractal analysis, moreso than most terrestrial man-made artifacts photographed from space. The investigation continues, armed with more accurate observations of the Cydonia complex - and in fact, the entire region.
