A Reality Check on the Mars Face
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The surface area of Mars is just under one hundred fifty million square kilometers. The surface area of the Face on the Cydonia plane is about one and a half square kilometers. At statistical odds of one hundred million to one of finding a structure that looks like a face, there is a good chance of finding at least one. At odds of one million to one we should find them all over the place. This would suggest that the laws of statistics requires a natural structure on Mars that looks like a face.

From the point of view of doing good science and good mathematics, the above statement makes about as much sense as those that use statistics to try and prove that the Face is an artifact of a ancient civilization that once lived on Mars. Statistics is useful for finding general characteristics of large numbers things. Finding the average age of a population is a legitimate use of statistics. But, statistics can say nothing about an individual. An individual must be studied for its own sake. The age of an individual might be near the average or not. The statistics of the population can say nothing about that individual's age. The best way is to ask the individual, or look at a birth certificate.

To understand the Face on the Cydonia plane on Mars, the Face itself must be studied in the context of the surrounding territory. This can be done without exotic image proccessing software designed to make it look more like a face then it does. See Cydonia: An Argument for Volcanic Origin for one explination of the Face and how it might have come to look this way.

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