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Lost Martian Civilisation), who consulted directly with DiPietro legends that claim descent of certain Earth races from pregnant and Molenaar and received their permission to use SPIT- women who escaped some great holocaust on Mars many tens of enhanced illustrations, There followed several US-published thousands of years ago). legends that claim descent of certain Earth races from pregnant women who escaped some great holocaust on Mars many tens of thousands of years ago). The writer's own first and lasting impression of the Cydonia Face is that it might be some kind of warning beacon for space travellers entering our solar system, that great care should be taken next planet in, where that very destructive creature, man, resides. Lost Martian Civilisation), who consulted directly with DiPietro legends that claim descent of certain Earth races from pregnant and Molenaar and received their permission to use SPIT- women who escaped some great holocaust on Mars many tens of enhanced illustrations. There followed several US-published thousands of years ago). works, including the outstanding The Monuments of Mars by The writer's own first and lasting impression of the Cydonia Richard Hoagland of the Mars Investigation Group, who has__‘ Face is that it might be some kind of warning beacon for space done more than anyone to publicise the Mars findings, including _ travellers entering our solar system, that great care should be a recent compelling video presentation to a large group of NASA taken next planet in, where that very destructive creature, man, scientists. resides. Briefly described, the origi discovered Mars Face feature, with its peculiar rhe anya er is a huge mountain. PYRAMIDS AND INCA CITIES? like object in the Cydonia region approximately 1.6 miles (2.5 In atiendance, about 7 miles (11 km) south-west of the km) from crown to chin, 1.2 miles (2 km) wide and, judging by Cydonia Face, isa cluster of angled constructions of various the shadow length in one of the frames, between about 1,650 feet sizes suggesting pyramids, one of which appears to be either still (500 metres) and 2,600 feet (800 metres) high. Colour enhance- under construction (when abandoned?) or partially destroyed. ment techniques used by the DiPietro/Molenaar team have indi- But the Face of Cydonia and its attendant pyramids are not the cated an eyeball feature in the visible eye socket, while recent only out-of-place objects scattered on the dusty plains of Mars. enhancements by Carlotto clearly show the presence of sculp- A Mariner 9 picture features a strange series of cubical and rec- tured teeth in the mouth area, What goes firmly against any ‘angular cells ranging from three to five miles in length and argument that the Face on Mars may be merely a rock formation forming a pattern which has its closest comparison in early Inca sculptured to look human-like through water and/or wind erosion Mountain city remains found in northern Peru and Bolivia, as is that fact that it represents a full face form, with symmetrically Photographed from the sky. Geologists remain baffled by this placed features. Any study of simulacra (faces and figures in unusual box-like patterning. nature) as related to mountains, hills and rocks on our own plan- The Mariner 9 frames of the Elysium quadrangle mentioned et, reveals that such instances of natural face-like rock sculpture previously, highlights several sets of tctrahedron pyramidal almost invariably present their human facial image in profile. structures which are far too unique to be immediately written off nit oe eeeenmnns SE arr Cnc a ine urally, a meet 2 er the Salts in 1 ulna Great Pyramid of Giza. Image enhancement Teveals some of ration at Giza. Hoagland equates the resultant image with the these massive Martian pyramids reaching more than half a mile Egyptian god Horus, whose hieroglyph can be translated as into the sky. ; : . ‘face’. One of the titles of Horus was ‘Lord of the Horizon’ and Another Mars pyramid teeters miraculously on the lip of a any sighting of the Cydonia object from a viewable distance on huge crater. There is no known explanation for how it might the surface of the planet might easily see this description trans- have got there. Other strange anomalies include what looks for lated into sculptured reality. Another commentator sees the — all the world like a giant airport (or spaceport) with a central hub image of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman in the face, while the | and wheel-like extensions, just like a modern airport, and giant Zulu author and ‘keeper of the tales’, Credo Vuzamazulu Mutwa, Wormhole-type features that seem to come straight out of the who sees the features as distinctly negroid, has insisted to the © OVvel Dune. These are linear effects that lead right up to the writer that he considers the Face on Mars a vindication of the old ater lip pyramid. There are also pockets of what could be African legends that claim that the Bantu people originally came underground tunnels—perhaps an underground network that col- from the red planet (there are, indeed, both African and Celtic lapsed due to crater impact. ’ THE SECOND FACE Of the newly uncovered wonders of Mars unveiled by the ongoing DiPietro/Molenaar research perhaps the most astounding (and damning for the scoffers) is evidence for at least one, and possibly two more Faces that démand closer scrutiny, The most convincing of these finds in a region of Mars known as Utopia, exhibits most of the features of the Cydonia Face, including twin eye cavities and an Egyptian-style headdress (or is it a space helmet?). It also shows two peculiar features that also, on close examination, appear to mark the Cydonia Face, i.e., notches on the cheeks and an indentation above the Tight eye. However, unlike its appar- ently well-preserved Cydonia counter- part, the Utopia face appears as if it may have been damaged at some stage View of the ‘Face’ from the ‘City Square’. Photo courtesy of Dr Mark J. Carlotto. (although clearer resolution may dis- ten times the height and a thousand times the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Image enhancement reveals some of these massive Martian pyramids reaching more than half a mile into the sky. Another Mars pyramid teeters miraculously on the lip of a huge crater. There is no known explanation for how it might have got there. Other strange anomalies include what looks for all the world like a giant airport (or spaceport) with a central hub and wheel-like extensions, just like a modern airport, and giant wormhole-type features that seem to come straight out of the novel Dune. These are linear effects thal lead right up to the crater lip pyramid. There are also pockets of what could be is—perhaps an underground network that col- THE SECOND FACE Of the newly uncovered wonders of Mars unveiled by the ongoing DiPietro/Molenaar research perhaps the most astounding (and damning for the scoffers) is evidence for at least one, and possibly two more Faces that démand closer scrutiny, The most convincing of these finds in a region of Mars known as Utopia, exhibits most of the features of the Cydonia Face, including twin eye cavities and an Egyptian-style headdress (or is it a space helmet?). It also shows two peculiar features that also, on close examination, appear to mark the Cydonia Face, i.e., notches on the cheeks and an indentation above the right eye. However, unlike its appar- ently well-preserved Cydonia counter- part, the Utopia face appears as if it ; may have been damaged at some stage dr Mark J. Carlotto. (although clearer resolution may dis- AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1993 View of the ‘Face’ from the ‘City Square’. Photo courtesy of Dr Mark J. Carlotto. 14°¢NEXUS | AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1993