The Fortress
Fig. 12
The Fortress (Carlotto) |
West of the Face across an open desert (evidence
suggests it at one time may have been a shallow sea), what at one time appeared to be four straight
“walls”, each over a mile in length, enclosed an inner space (figure
12). Two of the walls appear to meet in the southeast corner. From these walls
the Face would be seen in perfect profile. Having been among the
first to study these objects, Richard Hoagland named several of the
features in Cydonia. He called this feature the Fort, or Fortress
(Hoagland 1996). New MGS imagery showed that the shadow of a central peak, as if from a ruined pyramid, and cast toward the east, only gives the impression of straight walls. Nevertheless, researchers continue to seriously consider this object a collapsed pyramid. See Mark Carlotto's analysis of the MGS image at
http://www.psrw.com/~markc/Articles/April_2000/April2000.html
The Fort is one of a group of enigmatic
objects Hoagland called the “City”. Within the City, the Fortress and an
adjacent pyramidal object are similar in size, overall shape, and orientation
(mosaic below). This similarity suggests the possibility that if the Fortress
is artificial, it may have been an enclosed pyramidal structure that collapsed
inward, thus exposing the apparent honeycomb. This also suggests the possibility
that the pyramid next to the Fort may be hollow (Carlotto 1997).
Mosaic of the principle anomalies (Carlotto)
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