![]() And of course it doesn't help that some of the proponents of the Face have indulged in more than a little baseless “investigation." Searching for radio signals is well and good, but scanning the surface of a neighboring planet for signs of prior occupation is met with a very carefully cultivated institutionalized scorn. Basically, the Face - if artificial - doesn't fall into academically palatable models of how extraterrestrial intelligence will reveal itself, if it is in fact out there. Mainstream SETI theorists are equally hostile. Collectively, NASA frowns on the whole endeavor. the 'Man in the Moon') and has made lofty dismissals, but it has yet to launch any sort of methodical study of the objects under investigation. Since making the Face public in the 1970s, NASA has made vague allusions to humans' ability to 'see faces' (e.g. Mac continued: "NASA chooses to ignore that there is a controversy, or at least a controversy in the scientific sense. The prevailing alternative to NASA’s geological explanation - that the Face and other formations are natural landforms - is that we’re seeing extremely ancient artificial structures built by an unknown civilization." DiPietro and Molenaar had to dig through NASA archives to find a second image of the Face - and, far from disputing the face-like appearance, it strengthened the argument that the Face remained face-like from multiple viewing angles. Scientific analysis would have to await independent researchers." He continued: "When NASA dismissed the Face as a 'trick of light,' they cited a second, disconfirming photo allegedly taken at a different sun-angle. Of course, it was written off as a curiosity. Their research was published in “Unusual Martian Surface Features” shortly after, Richard Hoagland pointed out a collection of features near the Face which he termed the “City.” NASA itself discovered the Face and even showed it at a press conference after it had been photographed by the Viking mission in the 1970s. Mac told me: "The first two objects to attract attention were the Face and the 'D&M Pyramid,' both unearthed by digital imaging specialists Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar. The late Mac Tonnies – the author of After the Martian Apocalypse – spent years addressing, and studying, the matter of what became known as a real-life Face on Mars. Kirby's story would likely have fallen into obscurity, were it not for one, significant fact: in 1976, what appeared to be a huge, human-like face – cast out of rock – was photographed in a region of Mars called Cydonia. astronauts - of a vast, carved human-like face on the surface of the so-called Red Planet. Race for the Moon was a trilogy, with part-2 titled "The Face on Mars." It is focused upon the discovery on Mars – by U.S. Its title was Race for the Moon, and it was solely the work of Jack Kirby. But, it’s to a 1958 series that we have to turn our attentions. ![]() Jack Kirby was a skilled artist and storyteller who – with Marvel Comics' Stan Lee – co-created such characters as the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, and the Fantastic Four.
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