Solar System Anomalies 3:All-New Anomaly Images!

The Ulysses Face on Mars is posted on the image list below as "SPECIAL DELIVERY", but you can click the image above to go directly to the first study of it and some of its weird neighbors in the original MGS source image. A new webpage feature devoted to the Ulysses Face and the anomalous possible structures and monuments around it is in the planning and should appear in the near future at the new Solar System Anomalies V site. Stay tuned!

Source image links and information (geographical, etc.) along with any missing image text will be appearing shortly. I plan, or at least intend, to average three new anomaly image releases daily at this site. (Update, 2/2/2000: Well, I wish I could find quite so much free time or free server space... but there is quite a lot of image work on this site by now, and still more special features here waiting to be finished and released... Update, 4/19/2000: Eh? What's this? Fortune City has generously increased my allotment of disc space? Well, one of my wishes has been granted, anyway. Time permitting, will this site become the home of many MORE, all-new anomalous text, anomalous images, and higher quality, more thorough anomaly studies? Stay tuned!)

Due to prohibitive limitations on webspace, the desirable side-by-side, "before and after" comparisons of images, or the expositions of image processing steps remain unlikely to occur here. For an example of image comparison and a walk-through of imaging steps, please refer to the special feature below, "A Martian Omnirama: The Story of A Discovery"

In the case of faces, the criteria are somewhat less rigid; "somewhat like faces" is allowed... except these somewhat face-like forms still manage to surprise us by having a recognizable presence of features such as the Cydonia face sytle headdress, teeth, and so forth, even if they appear to be seriously damaged or weathered.

They perhaps should look weathered, for many experts still experimentally date Martian anomalies at roughly 250,000 years old!-- but we haven't even begun to truly explore theories of the various building methods that may have been used...

Regarding the color mapping method, it is rare that color is used to "connect the dots", that is to speculatively create any form that was not clearly visible in the original uncolored image, as double-checking the originals, even unprocessed, can quickly reveal.

Smaller areas mapped in color invariably attempt to follow the size, shape, and contour of visible objects and forms. Larger, more irregular areas of color will usually denote a whole series of connected anomalous forms that are too plentifully to reasonably color individually.

On rare occasions, this technique requires resolving the pattern where a line is actually too faint to readily detect at the specific contrast setting, so connecting two seperate areas in a manner that is artistically speculative, according to the colorist's experience with anomalies and knowledge of ancient structures, is resorted to.

If in doubt about something you are greatly interested in, please consider downloading the colored image or the source image and experiment with them yourself. Links to software demos and other anomaly hunter resources are included in the Solar System Anomalies I and Solar System Anomalies II site indexes. A step by step demonstration of basic imaging steps used can also be found in this site's special feature, "A Martian Omnirama, the Story of a Discovery", linked above.

Trust me, this is even easier than it looks. :-)

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