14.
MARS, AND THE FEAR OF MARS
“It was (John Brandenburg’s) suggestion that, if the craters on this part of Mars were ‘artificial, ’ there would be a may to tell — because nuclear explosions (as opposed to meteor craters) would be shallower... On the other hand, he said(undercutting, in the next breath, my brief hope that here was a definitive test!), the craters produced in targets in the lab, as part of the new Space Defense Initiative tests, were deep — not unlike meteor craters themselves — a direct result of the way they were produced: by the exotic particle beams ‘burying’ their energy deep within the targets. ”
Richard C. Hoagland626
Along with the Moon,
Mars is without doubt the planet that has the most hold on the
human imagination. Its persistent association with war and
destruction within astrological lore goes back as far as recorded
human memory extends. And ever since the Viking Mars probe took its
famous picture of the Sphinx-like Face on the surface of that
planet’s Cydonia region, it has become the focus of a protracted
debate between “Face believers” and “Face debunkers.” Previous
chapters have shown that, in so far as ancient myth is concerned,
Mars and its ruler(s) was a definite and decisive player in the
ancient Cosmic War. Accordingly, one may look for anomalous objects
on the surface of Mars, for corroboration of the idea that there
was once a civilization there, and one may look also for evidence
that at least some of Mars may have undergone deliberate
destruction. However, since the whole Cydonia-Face controversy has
engendered so much debate, nothing will be said about it here
except toward the end of this chapter. Here our concentration will
be on other anomalous features on Mars’ and its satellite Phobos’
surfaces that are suggestive of an artificial origin. The reader
should bear in mind that what will be covered in this chapter is
but a very small sampling of a very large catalogue of anomalous
formations on that planet.