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If one was to document or archive a work of art (for a museum or gallery), a photographer would normally take three alternate views of every sculpture to be cataloged. So, just as you would initially take a "head-on" view of a bifurcated mask, you would also take a 3/4 view, of the left and right side. Ultimately, NASA has provided us with such a bracketed set of images of the "Face" (figure 7). The 1976 Viking image, although unevenly illuminated, is a great over head shot. This image also provides conformation of feature placement for the newer images. Next, the 1998 image is actually a beautiful image of the "humanoid" side of the "Face", while the "feline" side (which still bares a remarkable resemblance to a lion) is dark, narrow, and foreshortened. The recent 2001 shot of the face has now given us just the opposite situation. The new image captures the feline side perfectly while the "humanoid" side is "off kilter" and because of it's highly reflective presentation, it lacks detail. So, what we have done is to crop each of the respective halves of the last two images of the "Face" at the central demarcation line, which runs down the center of the two split masks (see figure.2), and paste them together (figure.8). As you can see, NASA will just have to face it, yes it's not a symmetrical "human face", and yes it's not Elvis, it's actually a Martian version of a two-faced Mesoamerican glyph! It's what we around here like to call "Martian Geoglyphs".
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