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Subject: Mars rumor
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 16:50:05 EDT
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From: Robert.Aarhus@CMU-CS-SPICE


	I hate to bring up a rumor like this on one of the best
	net-bboards, but I am hoping that someone "in the know"
	can confirm/deny this story:

	At a national Metallurgical Science convention, it was
	announced that photographs from the Viking lander revealed
	what appeared to be a pyramidal rock formation with "a
	face on it" (this is where I became *real* skeptical);
	the formation, no less, had dimensions akin to those of
	the Great Pyramids. The pyramid appeared in greatly enlarged
	photographs of the martian surface.

	Now a rock formation, perhaps, but a Pyramid with a face?
	Does anyone know if this thing has been observed (maybe just
	a photographic artifact?), and if so, why the media hasn't
	picked up on it (sounds like something from the pages of
	the Enquirer)?..

						Bob Aarhus
						rta@cmu-cs-spice.arpa