Did NASA Prove Their Own Fraud In Cydonia Releases?
by James Burk MarsNews.com For months now, the NASA/ASU/THEMIS team has claimed than an image originally taken by Mars Odyssey’s THEMIS infrared imager on May 5th, 2002 and was originally released on July 24th, 2002 was the best image available of the Cydonia region, home to the infamous “Face on Mars”. Controversy ensued when Mars anomaly researcher Richard C. Hoagland announced that another, higher-resolution version of the same image was acquired by a NASA contractor named Keith Laney. Hoagland made the announcement on the popular radio program Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. Laney downloaded the higher-resolution version on NASA’s THEMIS website on the very next day, July 25th, 2002. Hoagland and Laney were attacked with accusations of data fraud from all corners of the Mars research community; accusations that they had somehow created the higher-resolution image and were making up the story for self-promotion. However, in a subsequent release on the THEMIS website of what they cl
