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Man on Mars- ABC news story....where can I get a printable picture?

I just watched a video news story about an object on mars that looks some what like a man or animal. Where can I get a printable picture of that? I have already tried the abc website...they only have video of it.

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1. JPL.nasa.gov has some great photos. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Mars Here are the photos: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/msss/camera/images/moc_5_24_01/face/index.html It was an image from the Viking Orbiter: http://www.msss.com/education/facepage/face.html Introduction In July, 1976, Viking Orbiter 1 was acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars as part of the search for potential landing sites for Viking Lander 2. On 25 July, 1976, it photographed a region of buttes and mesas along the escarpment that separates heavily cratered highlands to the south from low lying, relatively crater-free, lowland plains to the north. Among the hills was one that, to the Viking investigators scrutinizing the images for likely landing sites, resembled a face. Owing to the importance of the landing site search, and with a desire to provide the public with at least one familiar-looking landform amid the craters and exotic terrains found all over Mars, an image including the face-like hill was released as part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's public relations effort. The text of that release notes the face-like hill. Subsequent to this release, some people have argued, mostly in the lay literature, that the face-like hill is artificially shaped. Although their argument has been expanded to a host of nearby features, none commands public interest like the "Face." This page will provide interested persons with both the raw Viking images, transformed to GIF format, and a brief tutorial (with examples) of image processing techniques applied to create "better looking" images.