Cydonia

Cydonia Mars has always intrigued me for years. Maybe because each time i look towards the skys i can feel at one time Mars was alot like earth. Even though our organization cannot travel to mars we want to inform others that life did and does exist elsewhere and this is what I strive for finding it and seeing it. My theory on mars is quite simple maybe shocking to some. I believe that Mars was just like earth and i think what happened on Mars may happen here one day. You got a planet that is red why its red because its rusted. Rust usually only comes from metal. Lets say that mars at one time had structures like buildings, cities and then lets say something happened like a giant asteroid hit it, or acid rains, or anything for that matter now all that remains is a rusted ghost planet with spreading deserts and high winds burying anything left in its path. The whole Cydonia region has alot of interesting structures you got pyramids, building like structures, and of course the face which is very symmetrical and seems it looks alot like the sphinx. I believe the same aliens that built Cydonia on Mars came to earth and helped build the pyramids and ancient Egypt here. Some of the pharaohs may have even been ancient astronauts and even the Greek gods back in the mythological days. But this is just my theory. There has been other interesting things found on mars such as canals, ice poles, another face, grid like cities, and even lakes probably with very little water left in them. I still think there may be some life on mars whether its sand worms or something to that effect. But i think at one time Mars was alot like earth. They say Jesus Christ may have been an astronaut traveling to each world is it possible he walked on Mars spread his knowledge? If you notice Cydonia is about the only standing thing left on mars just as Egypt's great temples still stand despite there age. We may never know the answer and we may only find out by visiting in the future there. But the photos i will share do show the existence of previous life. Now that we know they exist all we can question is why were they built, who built them, and what happened on Mars?

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AngelOfThyNight-Rick

 
 

 

THE MARS / EARTH CONNECTION
by Klaus Totzek 

One day in summer 1994, I accidentally got a book in my hands, written by the author Johannes von Buttlar, about the FACE on MARS. My first opinion was, that this is nonsense, quiet impossible. But when I saw the first picture of that FACE, I changed my opinion because it was of such an anatomical perfection that it could not have been formed naturally. My ideas of the connection between EARTH and MARS originated out from the following considerations: 

1. In Cydonia there not only is existing the FACE - like structure, but others too. 

2. The regularity in their geometry indicates to an artificial origination. The structures in their totality seem to give a message to their observer. 

3. The works Richard C. Hoagland and Dr. Mark Carlotto have proved that in my eyes. So we have to clarify who the builders were and what were the reasons of their origination. There are three theories about that. One is, that a former mankind must have built the structures. The hypothesis which is following out from this is, that mankind must be older than we believe today. Hoagland in his book "The Monuments on MARS" supposed that there was a connection between EARTH and MARS in past of mankind. 

4. Because there are pyramids on EARTH and appear to be on MARS as well; it could be possible that both sets of pyramids originate from the same source. This was the first indication to the connection between Giza and Cydonia. 

5. The second and probably the most important one came from the orientalist Zecharia Setchin. In his book "The 12th. Planet" he has written about, that the sumerians have known about the existence of all the planets inside the solarsystem. Their names always decribed real properties of the planets, which were confirmed by our spacecrafts today. When the names of, for example, the outer planets are correct descriptions of their real properties, so the names of MARS as A.PIN (=there, where to set a correct course) and LACH.MU =(God of destruction) must be correct too. 

6. So I studied the monuments to find any indications to prove these names. One of the results is that it is possible to calculate the orbit data of planet EARTH with the help of the monuments of Cydonia. 

7. The sumerian Epic of Creation and the egyptian myth of OSIRIS are nearly complete identical. Both they are describing the same story of the origination of the solarsystem and the mankind in connection with the destruction of a former planet which became a risk for EARTH and MARS. 

8. Out of this follows, that the egyptian God HORUS is identical with planet MARS. And that means, that all the Gods inside of the myth are celestial bodies. In the same way as in the Epic of Creation. So this myth describes a very special cosmical event. 

9. So it was possible to equate the structures of Cydonia with the Gods of this myths. The alignments and the distances of all the structures makes it possible to interpret the structures as a pictorial representation of the cosmical event what is described by the myth of OSIRIS: The fight between HORUS = MARS and SETH = D & M PYRAMID. And the origination of the FLAMMING EYE OF HORUS therefrom. 

10. Ancient egyptian texts speak about the Pyramids of Giza as models of the most important parts of heaven and simultaneous they have a reference above their names to both the most important actors of the myth of OSIRIS. These are HORUS and SETH. Out from the combination of that and the idea, that HORUS and MARS are celestial bodies whereby HORUS is MARS the connection between EARTH and MARS originates from. In addition to that I found out, that the combination of all the original measurements of the Pyramids of Giza are an exact image of the polar circumfences of EARTH and MARS. One of the results for the model of MARS especially is circumfence of 40,87° latitude, the position of the D & M. So the Pyramids are a giant indication to find the 40,87° latitude on planet MARS. 

To the left is a city grid of mars to the right is a city grid of a major city in our country again see the similarities??? In theory mars and earth i believe are alot alike.

 

EARTH / MARS orbit connection

If we suppose a cut through both the orbits of the planets MARS and EARTH, and situating it in this way, that EARTH and MARS do approach to minimum distance, yeilds the following.

Because the orbit of MARS has an inclination of 1,85° to the orbit of EARTH, at one time MARS is situated above and one time below EARTH. At first we can connect both the center points of the planets together. The length of this line is 55,96 mio. km.

This connection line on EARTH is situated close above the latitude position of the Pyramids of Giza. If we would change the actual inclination of the axis of EARTH from 23,45° to 23,18° , this line would run exact through the Pyramids. The variation of the inclination not unusual. The inclination differs from approximate 21° to 24° during a time of 25.920 years and in a superior period of 40.000 years. This is called precession, this is used to determine data of the past and is rseponsible for the existence of the eclptic. Of interest is, that the EARTH has had the inclination of 23,18° at least in the year 10.399 B.C. In the same year there was a perihelical opposition of the planets.

According to that the Cheops - Pyramid is pointing to the latitude position of the D & M Pyramid on planet MARS in the year 10.399 B.C. and is vindicating in this way the name of the SPHINX as IMAGE OF THE GOD HORUS as marker for the same year. (please have a look to Stargate of Giza) For planet MARS we have the same conditions. The connection line even so is situated close above the northern latitude of 40,87°. If we change the inclination of the axis of MARS from 25,2° to 34,07°, the line is running through the D & M Pyramid too. According to the US scientist Hal Masurski, this has happened in past too. The axis of MARS is swinging from approximate 15° to 35° during a time of approximate 2,2 million years.

Out of this it is possible to calculate at what a time at last the planets have had these necessary inclinations.

The axis of MARS was inclinated to that value at least approximately 1,7 millions of years ago. The results of the changed inclinations of the axis´ and the inclination of the connection - line of about 6,8° to the orbit level of EARTH are the latitude positions of the pyramids on both the planets.

D & M PYRAMID 34,07° + 6,8° = 40,87°, so the result is the exact latitude position of the D & M Pyramid. CHEOPS - PYRAMIDE 23,18° + 6,8°, so the result is the exact latitude position of the Cheops - Pyramid.

HYPOTHESIS

Embedded in both Ancient Sumerian and Ancient Egyptian mythology is the "tale" of a stray comet that destroys a planet.

The Ancient Sumerians have the Legend MARDUK and TIAMAT and the Ancient Egyptians have OSIRIS and SETH.

TIAMAT / OSIRIS are the names for the former planet between MARS and JUPITER. MARDUK / SETH is the comet described by these ancient legends that destroyed on impact TIAMAT / OSIRIS, the ancient planet of our solar system.

Billions of years ago, a former planet we call TIAMAT / OSIRIS was completely destroyed by the comet = MARDUK / SETH. The fragments of the shattered planet TIAMAT / OSIRIS along with comet MARDUK / SETH crossed the orbits of the inner planets i n cyclical periods. There presence became a great danger to the remaining planets of our solar system. In a time, after millions of years, the remaining fragments of planet TIAMAT, together with fragments of SETH smashed down onto MARS = HORUS / A.PIN (The reference word A.PIN is according to Secharia Zetchin, one of the two ancient sumerian names for planet MARS. The name A.PIN means: THE PLACE, WHERE TO SET A CORRECT COURSE) .

So parts of MARS were thrown out, off the planet, by the shock-waves of this impact.

These parts of HORUS became the "Flamming Eye of Horus".

Then, 60 to 65 million. of years ago these fragments smashed down onto EARTH and destroyed the first of mankind. But not all. Some of them escaped to planet MARS.

There they built up the Monuments as a giant pictorial representation of this event.

As a gigantic warning to mankind.

500,000 years ago the humans from planet MARS returned to the survivors of the mankind of planet EARTH as the "Gods falling down from the heaven" , known as the Anunakies. As Gods they told the humans from EARTH about the events in the past. But packed into myths.

They formed a new mankind, as a lot of world myths say.

Then about 12.500 years ago another cosmical catastrophe must have happened. Either more fragments of planet TIAMAT or probably fragments of "The Flamming Eye" of HORUS smashed down onto EARTH.

This one was the mechanism of the great flood in our past. In that time the the Pyramids of Giza must have been built as a sign to the monuments on planet MARS and a marker of the year the world has been originated new after the destruction by the great flood.

So the Pyramids became the Horoscope of the Birth of the World and simultanous to that they are alignmented to the Pyramids on MARS, which are speaking from the first catastrophe 60 - 65 millions of years before. Both the Monuments on EARTH and on MARS are written in the same cosmical signpost. Out of that the connection between MARS and EARTH is originated.

 

 

 

     

    

 

One is lake mead Nevada and the other is a lake on mars see the similarities. Where there is water there is life.

Theories Concerning the Nature of the Row 


Just Rocks: 
A simple and likely theory. We know that the surface of Mars has plenty of rocks, and this is the surface of Mars that we are looking at. 

The problem with this theory is that if such a row of rocks were found on the surface of this planet, it would be assumed that they were the result of the actions of people—not nature. These features are also lighter than the surrounding material. 

Anyone have a picture of something like this on Earth? 

Ridges Eroded by Winds: 

The light colored features are ridges along a scarpe or small uplift. Some even show the “branching” effect characteristic to ridge-like features. Between each of these light colored ridges, the slope makes a slight scallop, or indentation, much like a small eroded ravine. That these ridges appear to “line up” is probably due to the uplift being associated with an ancient fault. 

The factor causing the erosion is likely the high velocity winds that are common on Mars, sometimes exceeding 300 miles per hour. Without rainful and without recent seismic activity, wind erosion could easily create the regular appearance as the winds sweep and skip across the scarpe. - theory by Donald Krupp 

Problems with this theory—none that I can think of. 

Anyone have a picture of something like this on Earth? 

Surface Feature Similar to those Below the Mesa: 


A simple and likely theory. The mesa above the ridge has lines that while not as regular or lined up are of a similar albedo (brightness) to the objects in the row. The features near the mesa are likely the bottom of ravines or gullies which have filled in with lighter materials, or frost, snow or ice. If the features are a series of depressions then they too could be filled with similar material. A row of such depressions could be have been caused by a similar process as sinkholes are caused on Earth with the cause of this localized in a straight line along a fissure or fault. The top of the ridge is also of a similar albedo perhaps indicating that it could be the source of the fill material. 



The problem with this theory is that the same material might be expected to collect in the nearby craters. It does not appear to do so. The formation of sinkholes would seem to suggest the flow of an underground stream of water. This is not likely to have occured recently according to our current knowledge concerning the availablility of water on Mars. The regularity of these depressions is a question that would need to be explained. 

Anyone have a picture of something like this on Earth? 

Volcanic Ejecta: 

Lava upon cooling can form some very unusual and sometimes regular shapes, a straight line of these shapes could also be concievably formed. 

The problem with this theory is that the nearby crater appears to be meteoric in origin and appears to be highly eroded. This feature does not appear to be as worn down indicating a more recent origin. 

Row of Craterlets: 

A possible explanation as meteors often break up upon entering an atmosphere or travel in clusters. This would account for the line. An example of this would be a string of craterlets just outside the Ptolemeus crater on the Moon. Will post a picture when I find one and obtain permission to post it. 

The problem with this theory is that these features appear to be oblong or rectangular. I do not know of any such craters. The lighting and shadowing of nearby craters does not appear to be similar to these objects 

Sand Dunes: 


Picture from October 7 MGS aerobraking manuever shows dunes which are caused by the Martian winds blowing over an area of sand. That is my opinion. The sand has filled a fissure or old riverbed thus making a long channel of sand in which dunes have formed that appear as a row of ridges. 

The problem with this theory is that the dunes are illuminated by the sun at a low angle and the shadows are what makes them stand out. The row is illuminated from a high angle and there are no apparent shadows. The objects also are significantly brighter that the surrounding material. The row objects are much smaller. 

Ancient Ruins: 

Structures built by ancient Martians or some other extra-terrestrial intelligence. The mastabas which lie along side of the Great Pyramid at Cheops have a very suprising similarity of proportion and arrangement. The webmaster at Cydonia 98 has pointed out the similarity between the shape of the ridge and a dolphin. The arrangement of the ridge, the objects and the mound are also interesting. 

http://www.bemyguest.com/mars/platform_dolphin.html 

The problem with this theory is that we have no hard evidence of Martians or extra-terrestrials. One might expect ancient ruins to be less obvious and not stand out so clearly as well. 

Secret Mars Base: 

The row of objects is similar in appearance to other rows of man-made structures on earth. People have the capability to send spacecraft to the surface of Mars. A large part of space activities are military in nature. These activities are classified and not subject to public disclosure. Other nations and organizations may also possibly have such capabilities. If a research base were to be built on Mars, the Cydonia region would be a likely candidate. 

The problem with this theory is how could such an operation be kept secret. It would also be extremely expensive. Under current publicly available information it would seem unlikely that anyone as of yet has that capability. 

 

What's So Unique About Cydonia?

By "R. Daniel Woolman"  Ph.D, in an
epic-length post on the "In Search Of" mailing list.
 

What is so unique about Cydonia? Geologically it is a mixture of fractured,
desert plains containing numerous mesas (flat-topped eroded prominences)
with varied craters typical of natural landforms throughout the solar
system. But at latitude 41 degrees North, longitude 9 West lie a collection
of features which some observers believe are anything but natural. Research
conducted by a small group of scientists in America since 1979 has
suggested a most exciting possibility - the remains of artificially
designed structures.

Mankind's last wholly successful voyage to Mars was NASA's robotic Viking
mission in 1976. Twin orbiters and landers investigated the geology,
chemistry, meteorology and possible biology of the Red planet. Whilst soil
chemistry tests were ambiguous, more than 50,000 digital images of Martian
geomorphology were returned from orbit. Most of the planet has now been
mapped to a resolution of 100m, and, in some places, 10m. Scientists
continue to analyse these pictures, inferring details of geological,
climatological and - most controversially - biological evolution from them.

There is ample evidence that the Martian climate was in the past more
benign than today. Eroded river channels, evidence of glaciation and
perhaps even ancient lake and sea beds have all been seen in Viking images.
An ocean may have occupied most of the northern hemisphere. There has been
speculation that the features at Cydonia lie on the edge of this ancient
northern sea. Certainly if the Cydonia remains are artificial, proximity to
water would be expected. Water and oxygen may have existed in the area
abundantly over one billion years ago.

Photographic interpretation plays a key role in generating hypotheses
concerning Mars's past evolutionary history. Ejecta blankets, comprised of
material thrown out by meteorite impacts - and with icy flows surrounding
their craters - hint at locations with ice or permafrost beneath. The width
of ancient valleys can be gauged from 3- dimensional maps (generated from
originally 2-D images) and the volume of floodwaters which once occupied
them estimated. The heights of volcanoes and depths of canyons can also be
shown in startling detail in computer flyby simulations. This kind of
research is the province of planetary geologists and geomorphologists.

Similar techniques - shape-from-shading (computerised 3-D image generation
from shadow depth) and stereoscopic imaging (generated by overlaying two
images of the same area taken from slightly different perspectives) - have
also been applied to Cydonia. New interpretative tools like fractal
analysis, used to determine the probabilities of non-natural features
occurring in a landscape, have also been brought to bear. Fractal analysis
highlights any possibly artificial objects due to their non-fractal nature
(i.e. they stand out by having a different mathematical signature from the
background terrain). When the technique was tested on Viking imagery, the
results suggested certain features were strongly non-fractal, and thus by
implication, non-natural.

Those studying the Cydonia region have identified a number of objects which
appear to share certain architectural, artistic and archaeological
characteristics not intrinsic to geomorphological formations. The most
obvious formation was termed the Face because of its similarity to one. The
DiPietro and Molenaar (D&M) pyramid and City are also terms frequently used
when nearby landforms are described. These names are used solely for
research purposes and do not ascribe any function to the objects under
investigation.

Discovered by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
personnel in July 1976, the Face was originally dismissed as a "trick of
light and shadow" when shown to journalists at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Project scientists claimed that
later images of Cydonia revealed nothing.

The Face was rediscovered in 1979 by Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar,
computer engineers under contract at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Maryland. DiPietro had become intrigued with Viking frame 35A72 labelled
"Head" filed in the archive. Looking for further information on the
geological explanation and analysis of the feature, he found nothing.
Initially DiPietro and his partner Molenaar called for further
investigation of the 2.5km wide Face and the apparently vast pyramid-like
structure - approximately 500m high and nearly 3km long - on frame 70A13
nearby, later termed the D&M pyramid after its discoverers.

They first developed a computer processing method called SPIT (Starburst
Pixel Interleave Technique) to enhance the images, then tested the
integrity of the method on Landsat photographs of the Earth. Although they
presented their findings in a technically responsible and scientific
manner, calling for verification of their results, they were generally
ignored by the very scientists who should have been most interested.

Despite having been shunned by the mainstream planetary establishment,
undaunted, they set up their own research organisation Mars Research, with
physicist Dr John Brandenburg.

DiPietro and Molenaar's findings were further developed by the pioneering
work of former NASA consultant Richard Hoagland in the early 1980s.
Hoagland was one of the men behind the interstellar plaques - designed to
be understood by any alien life-forms who might discover them - aboard the
Pioneer 10 and 11 probes to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond. An extremely
controversial figure in the US space community, he promotes radical new
ideas many find difficult to accept. With a background in subject areas
like archaeoastronomy, Hoagland was also something of an outsider to the
planetary establishment. He had originally accepted NASA's explanation of
the Face without question.

Hoagland discovered a collection of pyramidal mounds to the southwest of
the Face (termed the City) and containing the Fort, an unusual object
apparently with straight walls and an open central area. He also calculated
that Martian solstice alignments at Cydonia would be fulfilled every
500,000 years or so, later revising this to 330,000 years. Departing from
the usual planetary landform analysis techniques, he examined the features'
possible spatial orientations to one another. He also commissioned sculptor
Kynthia Lynne to create an analogue clay model of the Face and surrounding
terrain. When compared with the independent computer studies conducted
there was strong correlation. Part of Kynthia's model can be seen on the
cover of Hoagland's book "The Monuments of Mars".

Results of the early work on Cydonia are found in anthropologist Randolfo
Pozos's book "The Face on Mars: Evidence for a Lost Civilization?", an
account of the computerised conference that took place in late 1983 and
early 1984 between Hoagland, DiPietro, Molenaar, Brandenburg and others. As
well as exploring the technical research conducted on Viking image mosaics,
Pozos approached the highly speculative subject of extraterrestrial life
from religious and philosophical perspectives, examining the profound
implications should Mars indeed have once held advanced life.

The next researcher to address Cydonia was Dr Mark Carlotto, former
employee of a Boston company occasionally involved in US government-related
work. Dr Carlotto examined Viking imagery in 1986/7 using
shape-from-shading, disproving the "trick of light and shadow" theory. He
noted the possibility that teeth were present in the mouth of the Face, and
that these were not artifacts of imaging, appearing in pictures taken at
two different sun angles. Estimating the Face at around 2.5km long, 2km
wide and 400m in height, Carlotto further noted crossed symmetrical lines
on the forehead. He also applied the fractal analysis technique two years
later. In 1991 Carlotto published a book about his work "The Martian
Enigmas", where he called for Mars Observer, NASA's most recent Mars probe,
to re-image Cydonia.

In 1988 Erol Torun, a geomorphologist and cartographer with the US Defence
Mapping Agency in Washington DC, published a cartographic and geometrical
analysis of the D&M pyramid. He concluded that the internal angles and
symmetry were unlikely to occur in a natural mountain, and that no known
erosional process could produce such a regular formation. Torun has also
worked with Hoagland developing his theories. Finally former planetologist
and NASA astronaut corps member Brian O'Leary (at one time on the selection
list for a manned mission to Mars) also published work on Cydonia in 1990,
independently reviewing Carlotto's work in the Journal of the British
Interplanetary Society.

The history of the Cydonia research - and NASA's attitude towards it, up to
and including the loss of the Mars Observer spacecraft in August 1993 - are
well documented in the 200 page McDaniel Report. Author Stanley McDaniel,
Philosophy Professor Emeritus at Sonoma State University, California,
details how NASA failed to seriously consider the research and potential
importance of the issues raised.

McDaniel argues that the space agency ignored or avoided the research,
failing to justify its criticisms. The narrow SETI (Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence) methodology assumed and adopted by NASA was
the radio-search model - i.e. evidence of extraterrestrial life could only
occur via Earth-based radiotelescopes. Yet surely it is incontestable that
potential artifacts on nearby planets need a clearer photographic
examination? In view of this point, it seems strange NASA is unwilling to
consider it, though there have been recent signs that this attitude may be
changing.

The most recent work on Cydonia was completed in 1995 by Professor McDaniel
and Dr Horace Crater, of the University of Tennessee Space Institute. They
published a mathematical analysis of the small mounds in the vicinity of
the Face and City, their method being to discount the random placing of
these mounds.

If the objects in Cydonia are artificial how could we learn more about
them, beyond obviously re-imaging the area with optical sensor systems? One
approach might be to use a technique known as radar remote sensing. This
was used with great success on NASA's Magellan mission, which recently
mapped Venus using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Radar remote sensing has
a number of advantages over conventional optical systems. Firstly, the
illumination of a scene is generated by the satellite itself, in the form
of microwaves. These have several unique properties: they can pass through
clouds and weather systems unaffected; they can be used regardless of day
or night (and hence are of great interest to the military) and can, to some
extent, help to show what surface textures and materials are composed of.
On Earth for example, power lines and railways show up clearly on radar
imagery, being linear metal features they are strong signal reflectors.

A radar system deployed to study Cydonia might be used not only to map the
topography, but also provide spectacular 3-D views similar to those of
Venus generated from Magellan data. It would also be able to peer beneath
the Martian desert revealing the geological substructure as well as any
possible ruins.

The European Space Agency has examined instrumentation - including several
radar systems - for possible Mars missions in a 1989 study document. Radar
applications on Earth have made some surprising findings. The space shuttle
radar revealed ancient Mayan canals when the shuttle flew over Central
America in 1981. Completely covered in jungle they were invisible from the
ground. Archaeologists subsequently visited the site and verified the
shuttle's discoveries. The discovery of the ancient city of Ubar, in the
Middle East, was also assisted by space shuttle radar imagery. At the time
of writing, Dr Michael Malin, President of Malin Space Sciences - the
company building the camera for Mars Observer's replacement - has said he
will re- image Cydonia. This marks a subtle change from an individual who
has sole control of what objects the camera photographs, and originally
showed no special interest in the Cydonia region. The Mars Global Surveyor
is due to commence mapping Mars in early 1998.

What could be the solution to the mystery of Cydonia? Conventional
explanations for the Face involve natural forces blindly sculpting the mesa
into its near-symmetrical form. The pyramids have been compared with
driekanters or ventifacts - rocks and stones polished and faceted by
windblown sand. Yet if the landforms are natural it obviously asks a great
deal of nature. How could the same winds produce such differing forms so
close by, and what about the precise mathematical angles claimed in the D&M
pyramid?

We can but speculate on the implications should the features turn out to be
artificial, but theories put forward amongst those advocating an artificial
origin suggest that Cydonia might provide evidence for it; for example:

1.An ancient indigenous civilization which arose on Mars billions of years
ago, when the planet was more Earth-like; perishing, for reasons not yet
fully understood, when the climate changed.

2.Visitors from beyond the solar system who colonized Mars when it was more
habitable, either dying out, migrating to Earth or returning home when the
climate changed.

Or do the Martian artifacts really seem so unfamiliar?

Why assume they are really so ancient?

Could the real answer to the mystery of Cydonia have something to do with
us?..

....and, with this I believe we can now discuss this region without the
burden of psuedo-scientists attempting to wish a history and background
that may, or may not exist.

Cydonia is not going away! It has been around for a long, long time and
there is no reason to believe it is going to disappear in the next week,
month or year. I am simply not certain at this time, that anything other
than natural formations of land structures through natural erosion took
place.

Imaging will occur over this region once the Mars Surveyor arrives. It may
take some time; the first images may not be from the high-res imager, but;
if there are real scientifically 'provable' artificial structures as
proposed by those mentioned above, you can well bet that NASA/JPL WILL
obtain the best images possible. And, if there was any real scientific
proof of unnatural 'artificial' structures in the Cydonia region today you
can well bet NASA/JPL would place it on its highest priority. There is
simply no proof. Scientists can not avoid a true mystery, they can avoid
one that is obviously false.

Perhaps NASA/JPL are doing what scientists should do and that is to better
understand how Mars came to be what it is today. With a clearer
understanding of Mars and its geological history then perhaps we will be
better suited to explore the anomalies associated with the Cydonia region.