'The Face on Mars' Turns Forty

'The Face on Mars' Turns Forty - Articles - Coast to Coast AM: "Forty years ago today, NASA's Viking 1 orbiter captured an image which electrified the paranormal community and became a pop culture icon: 'The Face on Mars.'



The enigmatic formation on the surface of the Red Planet which seemed to resemble a face spawned a veritable cottage industry of theory and speculation surrounding an ancient Martian civilization. It also gave rise to a whole new subgenre of the paranormal where researchers arduously study NASA images in the hope of spotting something anomalous."