Update (Sep. 22, 2006): I'm getting lots of visitors from Slashdot and Fark. Welcome! Also, NewScientist.com has a short article about these images as well, and talks a little bit about how the Mars Express scientists got emails from people asking them to image Cydonia because they "don't believe NASA". Not that these new images will change their minds! I heard Hoagland was on Coast to Coast AM last night -- as I predicted in this blog entry below-- whining about the new images too. I'll have to get a copy of that segment!
Longtime BABloggee John Parejko clued me in to a European Space Agency press release today about new images from Mars. The Mars Express took images of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet, where antiscientist Richard Hoagland claims there is a giant "Face on Mars". Here's the overview of the region:
The region is pretty cool, ...