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Artifacts Mars Artifacts On Mars by R. H. Ayana In December 1984 | spoke with Dr James Hurtak, who was touring the world with NASA-documented evidence for monumental artifacts - pyramids, a giant sculpted face and others - on the surface of Mars. The face and other structures were subjected to intense scrutiny and years of computer image-enhancement after they were first taken by Mariner and Viking probes in the 1970s. New analysis of the Viking photographs prompts us to report what may be the unrecognised story of the century... large amount of evidence now A indicates that strange objects have been photographed on Mars by planetary probes. A Boston scientist has analysed an object on the surface of Mars which resembles a huge human-like face looking into space, and reported last July that it is part of a series of what may well be monumental artifacts. Mark J. 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Ayana In December 1984 | spoke with Dr James Hurtak, who was touring the world with NASA-documented evidence for monumental artifacts - pyramids, a giant sculpted face and others - on the surface of Mars. The face and other structures were subjected to intense scrutiny and years of computer image-enhancement after they were first taken by Mariner and Viking probes in the 1970s. New analysis of the Viking photographs large amount of evidence now A indicates that strange objects have been photographed on Mars by planetary probes. A Boston scientist has analysed an object on the surface of Mars which resembles a huge human-like face looking into space, and reported last July that it is part of a series of what may well be monumental artifacts. Mark J. Carlotto, a from Boston-based Analytic Sciences, has analysed photo- graphs of the face or ‘Martian Sphinx’ - which were shot by the U.S. Viking Orbiter 1 Mars probe in June 1976 - with comput- erised image-processing techniques. Mr. Carlotto used two methods to analyse the images - analysis of shadows The ‘Sphinx’ has been investigated for a Launched in August 1975, Viking 1 was and a projection technique called “shape | decade, but was first dismissed as a trick of | put into Mars synchronous elliptical orbit from shading” which reconstructed the | the light and gained little recognition from | tofind a safe landing site for Viking-Lander three-dimensional profile of the structure. | the scientific community. It was originally | 1. While the latter came down at Kusei- He also enhanced images of nearby py- | noted in Viking photograph 70A11 by two | Planetimom on the 7th anniversary of the ramidal! features called “the city” which | researchers from the Goddard Space Flight | first manned lunar landing in June 1976, have an unusually regular geometric | Centre in Maryland, Vincent DiPietro and | the Viking Orbiter 1 began to take pictures Evidence Emerges Mariners & Vikings shape. Greg Molennar, in 1979. of the Martian landscape. Along with Mr Carlotto fed a three-dimensional Suffering early ridicule, they devised a | Orbiter 2, over 54,000 pictures were taken. profile of the structure into a computer | newcopyrighted method for increasing the Prior to the Viking Orbiter, several which worked out what it would look like | resolution of digital images called Starburst | Mariner satellites were launched to map from various angles. He found subtle fea- | Pixel Interleaving Technique (SPIT), which | the entire Martian surface. One of the tures on the shaded side of the face with a_| showed clearly-visible eye sockets and an | Mariner 9 fly-by photographs of the Aleu- new technique called focal contrast en- | eyeball in the planetary orbiter photo- | tian Quadrangle inthe north-east quadrant hancement graphs. They concluded that the “Face on | of Mars showed a regular arrangement of “The image enhancement results indi- | Mars” doesn’t seem the product of “totally | pyramidal formations. cate that a second eye socket may be | natural forces. Further investigation seems Mariner 9 fly-bys during February and present on the right, shadowed side of the }| warranted.” But despite the fact that their | August 1972 showed distinct pyramidal face; fine structure in the mouth suggests | enhancementtechniques were identicalto | structures whose angles were clearly de- teeth are apparent,” Mr. Carlotto reported. | those performed on other NASA photo- | fined by reflected light from the Sun. The The “impression of facial features is not a | graphs, they were further shunned by the | second fly-by took pictures from a differ- transient phenomenon” but a real object. | scientific community. ent direction and light angle, eliminating The eyes are about 100 metres lower in Their work was disseminated to the | the possibility that the pyramidal shapes height than the nose and appear convex. | media in 1984. The media didn’t know | were formed by shadow patterns. He says that “results to date suggest that | whattodo with the story and failed to cover These objects are pyramids arranged they may not be natural”. it adequately; but the two researchers are | ina specific pattern, showing a regularity The original resolution of the Viking | now backed by Dr David C. Webb, PHD, | unknown to exist in any natural camera - 150 metres per pixel, or unit of | a member of the President's Commission | formation. In the early 1970s, Dr James | visual information - has been improved by | on Space, anthropologist Dr Rafael Pozos, | Hurtak (of the Los Gatos Academy of Fu- enhancement to a scale no larger than a | Richard Hoagland (science adviser to | ture Science) suggested a closer look at the small car. We can now take acloser look at | Walter Cronkite and devisor of the Pioneer ] Mariner 9 B-frames DAS 0779453 and massive pyramidal structures on the Mar- | 10 information plaque) and many other | DAS 12985AA2, which showed a perfect tian surface, some a kilometre high. scientists and engineers. set of tetrahedron pyramidal structures. NEXUS New Times Six - Spring 1988 by R. H. Ayana In December 1984 | spoke with Dr James Hurtak, who was touring the world with NASA-documented evidence for monumental artifacts - pyramids, a giant sculpted face and others - on the surface of Mars. The face and other structures were subjected to intense scrutiny and years of computer image-enhancement after they were first taken by Mariner and Viking probes in the 1970s. New analysis of the oe photographs prompts us to report what may be the unrecognised story of the centu large amount of evidence now A indicates that strange objects have been photographed on Mars by planetary probes. A Boston scientist has analysed an object on the surface of Mars which resembles a huge human-like face looking into space, and reported last July that it is part of a series of what may well be monumental artifacts. Mark J. Carlotto, a from Boston-based Analytic Sciences, has analysed photo- graphs of the face or ‘Martian Sphinx’ - which were shot by the U.S. Viking Orbiter 1 Mars probe in June 1976 - with comput- erised image-processing techniques. Mr. Carlotto used two methods to analyse the images - analysis of shadows The ‘Sphinx’ has been investigated for a Launched in August 1975, Viking 1 was and a projection technique called “shape | decade, but was first dismissed as a trick of | put into Mars synchronous elliptical orbit from shading” which reconstructed the | the light and gained little recognition from | tofind a safe landing site for Viking-Lander three-dimensional profile of the structure. | the scientific community. It was originally | 1. While the latter came down at Kusei- He also enhanced images of nearby py- | noted in Viking photograph 70A11 by two | Planetimom on the 7th anniversary of the ramidal! features called “the city” which | researchers from the Goddard Space Flight | first manned lunar landing in June 1976, have an unusually regular geometric | Centre in Maryland, Vincent DiPietro and | the Viking Orbiter 1 began to take pictures Evidence Emerges Mariners & Vikings shape. Greg Molennar, in 1979. of the Martian landscape. Along with Mr Carlotto fed a three-dimensional Suffering early ridicule, they devised a | Orbiter 2, over54,000 pictures were taken. profile of the structure into a computer | newcopyrighted method for increasing the Prior to the Viking Orbiter, several which worked out what it would look like | resolution of digital images called Starburst | Mariner satellites were launched to map from various angles. He found subtle fea- | Pixel interleaving Technique (SPIT), which | the entire Martian surface. One of the tures on the shaded side of the face with a_| showed clearly-visible eye sockets and an | Mariner 9 fly-by photographs of the Aleu- new technique called focal contrast en- | eyeball in the planetary orbiter photo- | tian Quadrangle inthe north-east quadrant hancement graphs. They concluded that the “Face on | of Mars showed a regular arrangement of “The image enhancement results indi- | Mars” doesn’t seem the product of “totally | pyramidal formations. cate that a second eye socket may be | natural forces. Further investigation seems Mariner 9 fly-bys during February and present on the right, shadowed side of the }| warranted.” But despite the fact that their | August 1972 showed distinct pyramidal face; fine structure in the mouth suggests | enhancementtechniques were identicalto | structures whose angles were clearly de- teeth are apparent,” Mr. Carlotto reported. | those performed on other NASA photo- | fined by reflected light from the Sun. The The “impression of facial features is not a | graphs, they were further shunned by the | second fly-by took pictures from a differ- transient phenomenon” but a real object. | scientific community. ent direction and light angle, eliminating The eyes are about 100 metres lower in Their work was disseminated to the | the possibility that the pyramidal shapes height than the nose and appear convex. | media in 1984. The media didn’t know | were formed by shadow patterns. He says that “results to date suggest that | whattodo with the story and failed to cover These objects are pyramids arranged they may not be natural”. it adequately; but the two researchers are | ina specific pattern, showing a regularity The original resolution of the Viking | now backed by Dr David C. Webb, PHD, | unknown to exist in any natural camera - 150 metres per pixel, or unit of | a member of the President's Commission | formation. In the early 1970s, Dr James | visual information - has been improved by | on Space, anthropologist Dr Rafael Pozos, | Hurtak (of the Los Gatos Academy of Fu- enhancement to a scale no larger than a | Richard Hoagland (science adviser to | ture Science) suggested a closer look at the small car. We can now take acloser look at | Walter Cronkite and devisor of the Pioneer | Mariner 9 B-frames DAS 0779453 and massive pyramidal structures on the Mar- | 10 information plaque) and many other | DAS 12985AA2, which showed a perfect tian surface, some a kilometre high. scientists and engineers. set of tetrahedron pyramidal structures.