![]() ![]() However, conspiracy theorists accused NASA of concealing and editing the images deliberately to hide what would be the definitive evidence of the past existence of a Martian civilization. Others insisted that the pareidolia (recognizing familiar patterns where there are none) of the face is not caused by a natural formation, but by the erosion of hundreds of thousands or millions of years of an artificial structure and that this can only be proven or refuted with an in situ exploration, and not with photos taken from orbit. Photos that, in addition, would show equally eroded pyramids in the vicinity. The fact caught the attention of the public six days later in a press report delivered by NASA. After the controversy raised about its possible artificiality, other probes and orbiters returned to photograph the region in higher resolution to show a structure that seemed more geological and natural, explaining that the appearance of a symmetrical face was given in the original photograph because the combination of the Sunlight angle of illumination and low resolution smoothed the irregularities of the surface.
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