The face of Mars was predicted and drawn in a 1958 comic
Comic book master Jack Kirby showed us the face of Mars decades before it was captured by Viking 1 in 1976 and became the most controversial structure discovered on the red planet. (face of Mars)
This “face” is a distinctive feature on the surface of the planet Mars located in the Cidonia region, specifically in Cidonia Mensae, which for some people resembles a human face. It measures approximately 3 km long by 1.5 km wide and is located at 41º05 ‘north and 9º50’ west. It was photographed for the first time on July 25, 1976 by the space probe Viking 1, which orbited the planet at that time.
The fact caught the attention of the public six days later in a press report delivered by NASA. After the controversy raised about its possible artificiality, other probes and orbiters returned to photograph the region in higher resolution to show a structure that seemed more geological and natural, explaining that the appearance of a symmetrical face was given in the original photograph because the combination of the Sunlight angle of illumination and low resolution smoothed the irregularities of the surface.