Comments on: Mars says, “Have a Nice Day!”

By: cm

cm — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:24:26 +0000

its pretty cool how things can happen like that but more amazing things have happened.

By: cm

cm — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:22:16 +0000

thats hot, but i think enrique is hotter

By: Lee_2008

Lee_2008 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:55:47 +0000

Some kind of joke
But really nice joke :))

By: lamentable

lamentable — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:27:31 +0000

In the comic, this crater is located in “Argyre planitia” (Dr. Manhattan says that few pages ago).

By: Kain

Kain — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:36:56 +0000

Laws of probability state that any and all scenarios can and will be played out. Taking this into consideration, the Mars smiley face is not so coincidental.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:13:26 +0000

Some time before Jupiter was resolved into more than a yellowish brownish blob there was a magazine printed with a picture of a gas giant on the front with a huge red storm

shit happens

This is cool, I’d love to know what made the mouth, I first thought maybe NAZA had used Spirit or Opportunity to make it, that’d be funny. But would probably take a while..

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:20:39 +0000

Miss C you beat me to it! Craterface, indeed!

By: sn4tchbuckl3r

sn4tchbuckl3r — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:37:25 +0000

It’s not even a crater…

Well, I guess this confirms aliens were there when Forrest wiped his face with that guy’s shirt. I knew it!

By: Annie Martel

Annie Martel — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:13:06 +0000

Photoshop or not… this is a cool pic!

By: MoonCake

MoonCake — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:12:39 +0000

how pleasant to see a planet smiling back! cooincidence or not, smiley faces always make me happy.

By: Anna Stewart

Anna Stewart — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:26:12 +0000

Ummm… All the people banging on about how it can’t be true because it’s in Watchmen, DO YOUR RESEARCH. Alan Moore has stated several times that the fact that there IS a smiley face crater on Mars was a happy coincidence, and when he found out about it he couldn’t believe his luck and wrote it into the comic.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:13:43 +0000

Maybe it’s smiling back at the Smiley Face Galaxy:

By: aerio

aerio — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:57:23 +0000

People have photoshopping long before one could google and yet we still get people throwing out claims of alteration without any claims of why. Can you spot embossing? Are pixels not grouped in natural formations?

Without a thought or reason it’s just another annoying version of the ‘me too!’ and ‘first!’ posting sytle.

By: Edward Khoo

Edward Khoo — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:59:25 +0000

Maybe that’s how all Aliens looks like?

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:37:46 +0000

‘Photoshop’ was verbed years ago.

By: BillIsGay

BillIsGay — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:30:14 +0000

Photoshoped? Since when did Adobe Photoshop becomes a verb?

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:53:15 +0000

This is what you call a craterface.

By: VidLord

VidLord — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:34:45 +0000

interesting!

By: Hillary Short

Hillary Short — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:31:47 +0000

I can already see how the conspiracy people will use this picture to create even more mysteries around Mars.

I mean c-mon, this face got to be artificial or something.

By: pubed

pubed — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:13:21 +0000

not as interesting as the other martian pic reveal earlier..

By: zankster

zankster — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:57:20 +0000

That is do cool. I agree with oakling, people see faces in just about everything and anything. I see faces everywhere I look. There’s one staring back at me right now. Anyway, real or not, it has my attention!

By: heyAlex2000

heyAlex2000 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:32:15 +0000

WOW! is this the second 1 because I think it was last year when a smile face was discover but it was on the moon.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:24:29 +0000

maybe it is coincidences. we should not have wronged him.

By: oakling

oakling — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:51:52 +0000

It’s not staggeringly coincidental; there have been studies done that show that humans are hardwired to see faces in pretty much anything we possibly can. If it has two dots in the upper portion that we can see as eyes, the whole darn thing is a face to us. This one happens to have a more or less semicircular squiggle we can see as a face, too. It’s only surprising if we buy into the idea that this configuration of makrs has some kind of relevance.

By: artbot

artbot — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:57:14 +0000

My first guess would have been PS also, but looking at the source of the image (Nasa/JPL), I’m inlined to believe it’s real. It’s not like it was on some random blog and bounced around the web umpteen times.

If it’s a joke by someone at Nasa/JPL, then they apparently don’t desire any more public funding as this would be a PR disaster waiting to happen.

By: ted

ted — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:47:18 +0000

That’s one stoned Martian.

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:45:02 +0000

Addendum: according to Wikipedia, The Watchmen crater is Galle crater, and there is an image that actually shows the Smiley-faceness of it that predates the comic.

So if you believe Wikipedia, there is no coincidence to be cynical about.

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:41:34 +0000

Forgive me, but if this was real it would be a staggeringly unlikely coincidence; not least because the scene from Watchmen that this resembles was about staggeringly unlikely coincidences.

Since there is a Watchmen movie in production, pardon me if I am cynical. I’d love it if it was real, but…

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:55:30 +0000

Hehehehehe!

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:36:29 +0000

Why do people claim its a fake without taking 2 minutes to follow the links…

http://www.msss.com/msss_images/2008/01/31/

It’s not fake nor is it the first crater smiley face to have ever been photographed. There is one taken all the way back from Viking 1.