Google Mars and the happy face

The Google Mars map browser lets you “fly” across the surface of Mars and zoom in on any feature that interests you.

In 1976, Viking photographed a mountain in the Cydonia region of Mars that looks somewhat like a face:

However, more recent photos of that spot show more detail and don’t look like a face at all.

There’s a better face on Mars though, the “happy face crater“, also known as Galle crater:

(NASA photos)

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