Cydonia Quest

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Image Enhancements

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The "Suburbs" : Part One

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Attention was first drawn to the "Suburbs" by the Enterprise Mission. This extraordinary landscape was first found on the southern portion of the second MGS image of Cydonia, SP1-23903, which was taken in April 1998 (click the "stargate" to access a JPL/NASA processed version of this image µµµ). The "Suburbs" sprawl over an extensive area and obviously extend beyond the borders of the MGS image. They consist of a maze of walls (several storeys high) enclosing areas the size of city blocks on Earth. The shapes and layout of these enclosures are strikingly artificial looking in many parts of the "Suburbs". TEM only enhanced and enlarged a small part of the area, an example of which can be viewed by clicking on this "stargate" µµµ.

In order to give the reader a better idea of what the suburbs look like I've enhanced and reduced in size by 50% the relevant portion of image SP1-23903. The black bar crossing the image is due to "transmission failure" from the MGS. . (This text continues below the next picture).

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As always with these outsized images the reader is advised to use the "View" then "Full Screen" options from the menu bar at the top of their browser screens to see more of the image clearly.

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During 2000 the part of the "Suburbs" above the "transmission failure" in the 1998 image was captured by the MGS at a higher resolution in image M22-00378. This new image seems to confirm some ideas I had when looking at the earlier 1998 one. TEM's 1998 visual analysis compared the "Suburbs" to a ruined city such as war-time Berlin. This gave the impression that the "Suburbs" could be the remains of an above the surface city with the walls surrounding the enclosures being the ruins of actual buildings. However, on examining the 1998 image it seemed to me that the walls were fairly level with the surrounding landscape and that the enclosed areas were originally below that level. I concluded that if the "Suburbs" were artificial then they must have originally been covered under the same roof with the walls acting as support. This conviction was increased when image M04-01903 was released in April 2000 revealing the area Cydonia Quest has named the "Cydonia Grill". The "Grill" area shows a steady progression from deep pits opening up in the ground and then progressively widening out into a landscape of deep rectilinear depressions. As far as one can make out the cause of the "Grill" appears to be the collapse of the ground into pre-existing (and massive) underground chambers and corridors µµµ. Ep

The picture below shows the part of the "Suburbs" that has been captured in the new higher resolution image, but reduced in size by half to load conveniently on to this web page. As can be seen the walls of the "Suburbs" form quite a regular geometric grid over many parts of the image. Other parts of the picture, such as the extreme bottom right hand corner (where a slope has been eroded through these formations) look less artificial. The feature at the bottom of the picture is the "Dome" which has already been covered elsewhere µµµ. C

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As always with these outsized images the reader is advised to use the "View" then "Full Screen" options from the menu bar at the top of their browser screens to see more of the image clearly.

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The following image shows a portion - towards the top right - of the preceding image at the original resolution sent back to Earth. It contains many examples of building-like rectangular enclosures.

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This analysis of the "Suburbs" contains many large images, so I've split it up into more than one page to allow easy down-loading. Click on the "Stargate" below to find out what the new MGS image has discovered about the true nature of the "Suburbs".

µ The "Suburbs" : Part Two