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Originally Posted by triplebird
My next question would be why such a sculpture would be built. Any ground-based Martian paying homage to the Face wouldn't even know what he was looking at...it won't look like a face from one side, where they would see it from. Blasting a mesa apart takes a huge amount of resources, so there should be at least a worthwhile reason to do so. I doubt the Face was intended as an interplanetary billboard.
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I've always assumed the theory is that it was put there for us to find, much like the "monolith" in
2001: A Space Odyssey.
On that basis, it would probably be a mistake to land a shipful of
homo erectus near the Face.
I wonder what the facebuilders did with all the construction debris? You don't have to look very far at Mt. Rushmore, but the Martian Face seems to be surrounded by an uncluttered, level surface.