... Bad Astronomy . ... Face the Face . ... Bizarre Image Analysis . ... It was first imaged by the Viking orbiter in the 1970s. It looks like a face. ... Hoagland then claimed that a) they botched the image, making it look less like a face, and b) he had predicted all along it wouldn't look like a face when better images were taken. ... Hoagland, hedging his bet, claims that he never said that when better images were available, it was going to look symmetric, or exactly like a human face. ...