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Scientists ponder signs of life on Mars Since the famous "Face on Mars" photograph taken by Viking 1 in 1976, more signs of "intelligent" life on Mars have emerged. Ananda Sirisena examines the startling new evidence.
The mysterious region in the northern hemisphere of Mars known as Cydonia is the scene of another stunning discovery by an American professor of physics. Dr Horace Crater, from the University of Tennessee Space Institute, recently announced that he had found a significant pattern to the placement of some small, highly reflective "mounds" amid the already controversial red rocks of the area known as "The City Centre". Professor Crater, in a joint paper written with Professor McDaniel (author of "The McDaniel Report") says that "the small mounds" are objects from 0.1 to 0.2 kilometres square, located in Cydonia, between the object known as "The Fort" and the massive pyramid there. This makes them two to four times the area of the large pyramid at Giza in Egypt. The mounds were found to lie on the nodes of a grid. This insight by McDaniel led to further detailed research which showed that the mounds were laid out according to the internal angles of a regular tetrahedron–a three-sided pyramid with an equilateral triangular base. In 1969, the US probe Mariner 9 photographed huge tetrahedral pyramids in the Elysium region of Mars. A set of five of the mounds display a unique set of angular relationships, suggesting a sophisticated knowledge of tetrahedral geometry. The patterns of these mounds display a geometric elegance which, if natural, is reminiscent of some giant crystal-like structure whose dimensions are tens of kilometres, rather than the fractions of a millimetre, found in crystalline growths on Earth. It is certainly not compatible with any known natural phenomenon or geological process. This find has led to further calls for very high resolution photography of the Cydonia region, and for the immediate release of such images collected by the Surveyor probe. NASA has said that it will try to obtain close-up pictures of Cydonia but will not guarantee the imaging of any particular feature or object. A few years ago in The McDaniel Report, Professor McDaniel had been scathing in his denouncement of the failure of NASA scientists to address the issue of possible artefacts on Mars, including "The Face" in Cydonia. Richard Hoagland (author of The Monuments of Mars) recently held a press conference at the Press Club in Washington, where he accused the space agency of withholding pictorial evidence of artificial structures on our moon for over a period of thirty years. Official mission films, analysed over a period of four years, using scientific techniques and computer technologies which were unavailable even to NASA when the original photographs were taken provide compelling scientific evidence for the presence of such ancient structures on the moon. The prominent discovery in this remarkable area of Mars is the famous "Face". It appears to be more eroded on one side–the left and right sides do not seem to mirror each other. Was it deliberately designed this way? Photographic analysis shows the right side to be like a human face; the left side hints at a lion-face (although this is debated by some). This could be a truly amazing discovery. Many parallels have been drawn between the geometry of Cydonia and that of the pyramids in Egypt, where the man-lion image of the Sphinx stands guard over the ancient Giza megaliths. The academic community was recently rocked by a finding that the Sphinx may be thousands of years older than the pyramids themselves, and the suggestion that it might be the remnant of an earlier civilisation on Earth such as Atlantis. Hopefully time and further investigation will eventually reveal the truth about this area of the "red planet". For the time being however, this seems to be evidence of intelligent life which has been placed there for all to see! Ananda Sirisena
The Crater/McDaniel paper is available from Ananda Sirisena. Please contact The Inner Potential Centre for details. |
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