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Back in 1976 while NASA's Viking 1 space craft was flying around Mars near the Cydonia region when it snapped a picture of an odd landform that baffled scientist for years. It had come across a mesa that resembled a face. NASA said that it was just an optical illusion to make it look like a face. When NASA first revealed it to the public it drew some attetion in the entire country. It had a movie, books and was even in every grocery store check out aisle for 25 years.

NASA then began prioitizing photogaphing Cydonia to see if it was an alien artifact or not. They then sent another spacecraft eighteen years after the Viking missions.They took a better picture of the face as soon as they could, even though it wasn't a clear picture and was taken during the cloudy season on the Red Planet they seen that it was not a face but a landform istead.

There are many reasons why this was a landform and not an alien monument as even the first NASA report said that the shadows were just an optical illousion to make it look like something it is not. Many scientist then said that the face was like a butte that was located in the Snake River Plain in Idaho. In 2001 NASA sent another spacecraft into space and got an even better picture of the mesa and put an end to the conspiricies that said that the mesa was a face.

In conclusion, the "face" had attracted alot of attention to NASA and Mars as it became a major pop culture refference.That then began to deminish as NASA's photographing technolegy got better they then revealed that it was a butte that was just an optical illuosion.There were so many facts to debunk the myth that NASA's deffenders hoped that it was an alien artifact so that they could get more money.

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