"Face on Mars" video (and unrelated book micro review)

[attolia]

The guy who runs the bad astronomy website posted a link to someone else's flash movie showing the so-called Face on Mars as seen with more recent probes. It is really cool.

While I'm on the topic, he blogged about another film which shows how the full moon changes its appearance over the year due to the slight non-circularity of it's orbit and

Comments

[devin_chain]

I watched the Mars "face" one. Very cool, but it makes me a little sad. Doesn't really look like a face at all at these higher resolutions.

Thanks for sharing these, Attolia.

[attolia]

Doesn't really look like a face

That's what I thought was cool about it. So much was made of the face in tabloids but the zooming in showed how much was too to the limited resolution of the earlier probe. A lot of it was shadows, too.