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The "Ruler" Mound

The new MGS image "dump" by Malin Space Science Systems on 7th May 2002 included two Cydonia pictures that imaged a mound which revealed some interesting properties for the first time. This mound does not appear to have been named by Cydonia researchers as it has not previously illicited any interest. For reasons that will soon become apparent Cydonia Quest will be referring to this mound as the "Ruler" Mound. The "Ruler" Mound can be seen in the centre of the context image (below left) adjacent to the southern side of the complex of interconnected mounds that were dubbed the "City Square" - from their appearance on Viking images. The image below right shows the "Ruler" Mound in more detail.

The full sized version of the context image can be accessed by clicking this "stargate" (µµµ). The image fully captures the western side of the "Main Pyramid" for the first time, confirming that it is a five sided, but non-symmetrical formation. The mounds of the "City Square" may also be the remains of something larger that once had a squat but symmetrical pentagonal shape. A particularly interesting feature revealed for the first time is the "L" shaped mound just to the North West of the "Main Pyramid" and which is reminiscent of a similar feature adjacent to the Big "H" formation, (µµµ).

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The MGS images above were taken at a relatively low resolution of 10 feet per pixel. A second image of the "Ruler" Mound was also taken at the highest possible resolution of about five feet and provides more detail of the anomalies near the top of the "Ruler" Mound, (µµµ). Even though this image is rather murky and "soft focussed", the ruler straight "avenue" running up to the summit edged by angular blocks that are of even size and evenly spaced must immediately strike all those who view the image.

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The images above reveal the blocks lining the "avenue" to look something like the pyramidal ant-tank obstacles that were used extensively in World War II - only these features are the size of mansions. The high resolution image of the "Ruler" Mound also reveals that its exposed higher surface is covered with an artificial looking pattern of eroded walls and hollows. Is this the exposed ruins of the internal structure of a badly damaged arcology, or of a complex built over an existing hill? A relaxed viewing of the enlarged image on the left (sitting well back from the reader's computer screen) reveals a surprising number of rectangular and rectilinear outlines.

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