Mars Express Images

[KS42]

Hello.

This is my first post.....Joined today.

I would like to share some images taken by the Mars
Express spacecraft. Keep an open mind.....All images are direct crops or sections of the original source images. These images are intriguing to say the least.

Thanks.

Website:
http://www.marsesa.9f.com/slide_show.html

Source images:
http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&keyword=cydonia&single=y&start=4

http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&keyword=cydonia&single=y&start=10

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEM565R03EF_1.html
 

[SHJ]

Hello.

This is my first post.....Joined today.

I would like to share some images taken by the Mars
Express spacecraft. Keep an open mind.....All images are direct crops or sections of the original source images. These images are intriguing to say the least.

Thanks....

Welcome to the board KS42. 

Without knowing what you find "intriguing" it would be premature to comment on  any particular Martian image you posted outside of saying that there are many images of Mars and elsewhere that are intriguing in one way or another - with Mars you have the "tubes" and "pine trees," some features of the Jovian moons are intriguing to say the least and Messenger's recent Mercury visit brought us "The Spider," but if you're implying an artificiality I disagree. Richard Hoagland's mid-1970s "Face" was the best bet for something like that and the followup images of the Cydonia region were very damaging to his argument, one he still tries to make to this day. 

[KS42]

A sample image....A damaged or ruined pyramid..
Look closely........

http://marsesa.9f.com/slide_shows/Cydonia_Images/fig846.jpg

[SHJ]

A sample image....A damaged or ruined pyramid..
Look closely........

http://marsesa.9f.com/slide_shows/Cydonia_Images/fig846.jpg

The Cydonia region has many interesting and quirky formations which is probably why Hoagland and his imitators fixate on it. Your "ruined pyramid," other pyramid-like formations, and even the infamous "Skull" are a combination of natural formations with some "pareidolia" (which is basically a trait we all have for looking for patterns in things) sprinkled in. Many people are unaware how nature can fashion many unusual formations all on it's own, and not just pyramidal shapes. Check out this "face" courtesy of Google Earth.
 
The Mars Express Cydonia images are touched on in this item from the ESA along with why, even though they aren't artificial, these formations are still of interest in a geological sense.