Face on mars

[picolomondo]

What is everybodies opinion of this? Does the face exist, or is it just a trick of the light?

[answerbok]

simulacra

[answerbok]

sorry, let me elaborate.. you're seeing one picture, basically, the famousest one, that's it, from one angle, you can do that with any picture once you've found a good angle. So it's not even simulacra [which at least can be viewed from several angles, often many.] So it's an illusion; think how many alternative pics of it they probably threw away to enhance the illusion. Now the man in the moon.. that's a whole different ball game...

[sft42]

It's just the way the chocolate hardens that's all.

[robber1]

Some years ago I read that the human brain "looks for" images it can relate to. When looking at a pattern in curtains for example, the mind sees a face in the pattern which is not actually there. This applies to cloud formations, the Moon and in this case, Mars etc.

[PaulB]

On a similar note to robber1's answer; it has been said that you will see what you are told to see, so, if someone tells you it looks like a face it would be very difficult to look at it as anything else. It is weird though!

[Ember]

Its been that cloudy here, I haven't found Mars yet let alone a face.

[PaulB]

LOL!!! @ P.Greenwood! Thanks for bringing a smile to my face :o)

[nuova1]

Well as a Martian I have to tell you that we are fooling you all as we have done for years....he he he

[melandraf]

...sadly, it is just a trick of the light - if you were to see the "face" from a slightly different angle, it is nothing at all like a face.

[melandraf]

...ooops - should have said - check out NASA site for photos.......