Mars Face Makeover

NASA started it all back in 1976 with an image of an interesting mountain on Mars and a caption that described it as appearing to have eyes and nostrils.

Well, now it's pretty much been confirmed that there isn't a shred of decent evidence supporting the idea that the Face On Mars is a artificial construct. Just a tricky interplay of light and shadows, and the human minds thirst for recognizing facial patterns in everything it cognates. I had been convinced of that for some time now, but this is the final nail in the coffin, unless the HiRISE camera on MRO happens to pick up new details. Maybe some new, under-imaged region of the red planet will relinquish evidence of a Von Neumann probe, or some other monolithic construct left behind for us to discover.