Xref: utzoo sci.skeptic:11936 sci.space:31848 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!socs.uts.edu.au!syzygy!dcorbett From: dcorbett@socs.uts.edu.au (Dan Corbett) Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,sci.space Subject: Re: Mars "face" Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 03:00:41 GMT References: <13347@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1528@gtx.com> Lines: 24 al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski) writes: >Instead of a bunch of amateur interpretations of this picture, it would >be interesting to get a professional's opinion. > [...] >Have any of these people given an opinion on the photos? I used to work in AI for The Analytic Sciences Corporation, and I knew the guys who worked in TASC's image analysis lab in Boston. They were asked by NASA to interpret the "face" image. They merged a few photos, and looked at various lighting angles. What they came up with finally (after a lot of analysis) was a couple of hills. No face, no ruins, no cities, nothing special. That one picture that produced the face was just taken at exactly the right angle and lighting to produce the "face." No, I *don't* know how to get any technical reports out of these people, and I don't have their phone numbers/e-mail addresses/whatever. Try the Boston phone book. Don't ask me, I moved to Australia years ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Corbett Dept. of Computer Science University of Technology, Sydney ------------------------------------------------------------------------------