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Old March 14th 16, 04:34 PM posted to sci.skeptic,sci.space.policy,sci.astro,alt.alien.research,alt.alien.visitors
Bob Officer[_2_]
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Default The face on Mars

David Dalton wrote:
Last night I heard an interview with Richard Hoagland in which he said
that the face on Mars could not be a trick of light and shadow since
it turned up in two images taken 30 hours apart.


It is a trick of light, David.

Since the over processed image of the face was made public nearly 50 years
ago. 100s of high resolution images have been made and show the face is
just a creation of mans imagination.

The real problem is the initial image had been nightly over processed and
then smoothed. You have to realize the entire face was an area nine square
pixels. The processing took nineteen steps to created to create the face.

If one took the same resolution image one could create a face out of over
50% of the possible combinations of pixels.

Hoagland was discredited years ago. As more and more data has come in to
play. He now is nothing more than a huckster hustling his side show.