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From: Asgeir W. Skavhaug <asge-s@online.no>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:41:39 +0200
Fwd Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:06:39 -0400
Subject: New Mars Cydonia Pictures - Including 'The Face'


Hi List,

The Cydonia region on Mars is perhaps most "famous" for being
the location of a feature that--in Viking Orbiter images--
seemed to resemble a human face. Nearby buttes and hills were
considered by some to represent a "city".

Last year, several pictures of a portion of the Cydonia region
of Mars were photographed, at lower resolution than is now
possible in the Mapping Phase of the MGS mission.

The Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) onboard the Mars Global Surveyor
(MGS) orbiter, was designed specifically to bridge the gap
between what can be seen from orbit in typical Mariner 9 and
Viking orbiter images, and what can be seen from the ground by
landers such as Viking 1 and Mars Pathfinder. The camera,
therefore, takes pictures of extremely high resolution. These
images are often comparable to aerial photographs used by
geologists when they are exploring Earth. The highest resolution
images that can be obtained are in the range of 1.4 to 2.0
meters (4.6 to 6.5 feet) per pixel.

The MGS spacecraft flew over the "famous" Cydonia landforms
again--for the first time since April 1998--on June 27, 1999, at
10:53 UTC (Greenwich Mean Time). The new MOC images shown here
provide the highest resolution view yet obtained of the "Cydonia
city" landforms.

See the new unprocessed and processed pictures -- created on
July 7, 1999, and produced by Malin Space Science Systems --
here:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/PIAGenCatalogPage.pl?PIA02092

http://photojournal-a.jpl.nasa.gov//outdir/PIA02092.4968.jpeg

Images were subjected to image processing techniques to improve
the visibility of features in the images. The processing applied
includes bit-error correction, reseau removal, very slight
brightness alteration, and projection to a standard map view
(mercator projection) with north at the top.

Contrast/Brightness enhancements and image sharpening were not
performed as these would create images that would differ
depending on the nature of the monitor on which they were being
viewed.


Best Regards,

Asgeir