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Explanation: The unusual stone mesas of the Cydonia region on Mars are quite striking in appearance. Last week, the Mars Express project released a new close-up image of a portion of the Cydonia region on Mars. This new image, taken by the robotic Mars Express spacecraft now orbiting Mars, shows an area about 90 kilometers wide. In the far lower right of the above image, a particularly picturesque mesa can be seen as the upper right of the two mesas visible there. This mesa, when lit from just the right sun angle, can appear similar to a human face and became famous as the Face on Mars in 1976 Viking orbiter images. Better images show it to be just an interesting mesa. Such complex looking landforms in the Cydonia region are thought to be the result of landslides and erosion of the ancient Martian crust.

Sherwood Smith

Read Crown & Court Duel by Sherwood Smith (aka sartorias) last night. What interests me most about this is that even though the books were published AFTER her & Trowbridges Exordium series some of the similarities between Vidanric and Brandan Arkad. Also between the court scenes in the 2nd book and many of the High Dolloi sequences in the Rifter's Covenant the 4th book in the other series. And the author notes at the end make me think that the concepts for these books came before the partnered novels...

More Lost weirdness

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