New Cydonia "City" Image Analysis
Part I
On April 14th 1998, at approximately 7:02 AM PDT, Mars Global Surveyor imaged the Cydonia region for the second time. The targeted area was the so-called "City Square" at approximately 40.9 degrees N by 9.8 degrees W. Inexplicably, after hitting the Face dead on on the previous pass, MGS managed to miss it's target by nearly 2 miles.
What was imaged was a narrow strip of probably the least interesting portion of the "City" itself. It contains a few of the less remarkable polyhedral structures and two of the geometrically positioned mounds originally noted by Hoagland.
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What was remarkable was that the navigation team at NASA was able to place the MGS orbiter almost directly over the "City" at a very significant time. As the image was taken, Leo - the stellar depiction of the Sphinx in the religions of Pharohaic Egypt - was placed over the City with one star on the horizon and another at the tetrahedral latitude 19.5. |
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| The idea that an agency capable of such an exquisite expression of an
ancient tradition could miss it's mark by nearly 2 miles is laughable. It is also accountably impossible. In his extensive report, Dr. Stanley McDaniel outlines the problems inherent with orbital mechanics and the narrow strip high resolution camera. He summarizes the two major considerations, Downtrack error and Crosstrack error. |
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| "Downtrack" is the path back along the spacecraft orbit,
represented by the black arrow. "Crosstrack" is the lateral scanning normal to the spacecraft along the vertical axis (represented by the green). Of the two, crosstrack is by far the most difficult to account for because of uncertainties in the mapping grid developed by the Rand Corporation. However, even in a worse case scenario, the crosstrack error is about 0.15 miles, or one thirty eighth of the width of the City itself. In McDaniel's own words, hitting a target in the city is "About as difficult ... as hitting a door with a baseball from a distance of about 1 foot". |
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In other words, they got exactly what they wanted to get.
Before we even get to the image itself, there is yet another problem. This new image has been reduced from the expected 2048 x 19200 resolution to 1024 x 9600 - or only half the data it should posses - just as the Face image was. MSSS has insisted that the resolution was reduced to correct possible downtrack error and assure hitting the target. But as I have already pointed out, it's the crosstrack that is of concern, and it is so easily accounted for that it presents no major challenge at all.
In short, there is no justification for either missing the targeted "City Square" or reducing the image quality.
Now why would Malin want - which he obviously must have - to miss the "City Square"? One probable answer lies in the "Giza Scale" mounds placed gracefully about the Cydonia complex.
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An extensive analysis of these mounds and their arrangements has been published by Dr. Horace Crater and Stanley McDaniel on the McDaniel Report Web site. Two of them are captured in the new MGS image, and what they show is extraordinary. |  |
| Our first close-up look at mound "P", a corner of a perfectly
equidistant triangle, reveals stunning geometry. A perfect hexagon on a raised knoll marks
the location, surrounded by a "moat" of sorts. The walls are raised and uniform,
and show no signs of the effects of an ocean in the area, which is the supposed
explanation for much of what was observed near the Face. The wedge shaped adjacent mound (which is what was observed from Viking), is starkly polyhedral and recessed into the surrounding terrain, as if it was placed on top. There is an extensive rectilinear pattern all over the object and in the debris field in the upper left. This area shows no signs of volcanic action or water erosion to account for the shape, and in any event these processes could not explain the parallel features in the debris field. The overall external and internal geometry are consistent with an eroded artificial structure rather than a conventional "natural" object. The placement in relationship and context to the other mounds makes it even less likely that an exotic natural process could explain it. |
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This sort of redundant geometric and "Hyperdimensional" message, observed on the macro scale in the placement of the mounds in tetrahedral configurations and on the microscale in the hexagonal marker adjacent to the mound, is exactly what Carl Sagan was looking for in his treatise's on extraterrestrial life.
In other words, from a distance the message is "Artificiality" and "Hyperdimensional Physics". Up close, it's "Artificiality" and "Hyperdimensional Physics".
You may be wondering how tetrahedrons and hexagons are connected, other than their basic geometric forms. In the works of Maxwell, recovered by Hoagland more than a century later, he postulated about the physical properties of multi-spatial dimensions and their interactions in our familiar "3D world" of energy and matter. The numbers predicted that the behavior of a spinning sphere, such as a planet, would "outwell" higher dimensional energies at a key "Tetrahedral" latitude - the now ubiquitous "19.5 degree" connection. A lesser known aspect of this model was the prediction that there would be inwelling points in the system as well, and that they would be hexagonal.
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Recent images and data from the polar regions of the Sun and Saturn
confirm that such inwelling points do exist, and imply that the entire Solar system is
working on a scale and to a set of rules that we are just beginning to understand. So the "Message of the Mounds" is a striking confirmation of Hoagland's earlier work. |
Now, if this is typical of the mounds in the region, then avoiding imaging an arrangement of 5 similar mounds in the "City Square" would be high on Malin's agenda. It is hard to imagine a stronger confirmation of artificiality if this mound is any example.
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An examination of the second mound "Mound O", is more
problematic. The poor lighting and high noise content make this image much more difficult
to work with. However, the same underlying hexagonal layout is visible and noted in the
mark-up on the right. Beyond that observation, there isn't much to add. There may be a faceted structure in the center, but the lack of contrast and reduced data level mean it is not likely to be brought out conclusively. |
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| In the southern portion of the image below the black band is yet another
hexagonal structure, somewhat larger but comparably scaled to the other two. Just
adjacent to the area Richard Hoagland has referred to as "Leavittown", this
hexagon rests on an elevated mound and seems to have intact walls and a central courtyard.
The lower wall has indications of tiered horizontal stripping on it. Other than as markers or symbolic hints at Hyperdimensional physics, it is unclear what purpose these obvious structures must have had. Given their locations next to other anomalous areas, they may have served as temples or gathering places. |
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But what else is there? Surely a massive complex such as the "City", even if it is millions of years old and highly eroded, must posses more than just a few regularly spaced mounds to cite the presence of its magnificent builders upon the Martian sands?
It does. But that's Part II.
