D&M Pyramid
             In 1976, the Viking mission to Mars obtained images of the Martian surface of an area known as the Cydonia. In analyzing these images, Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, image interpreters from NASA, discovered an unusual formation in the form of a human face, dubbed The Face. While some believed that this was an ancient, artificially created structure, many dismissed it as a natural formation. Inspired by these findings, astronomer and former NASA consultant Richard C. Hoagland organized theIndependent Mars Investigation? in 1983 to further study and analyze the images obtained from the Viking mission. In the investigation, Hoagland discovered and studied other formations inconsistent with Martian geology including theCity?, a cluster polyhedral objects with a rectangular arrangement and a center of axis pointing at the face, and the D&M Pyramid (named after DiPietro and Molenaar who first noticed it), an immense pyramidal structure, nearly 3 km in length and 1 km high. Hoagland worked with the Stanford Research Institute to study higher quality images of the D&M Pyramid, and found the structure to be a five sided, bilaterally symmetrical pyramid with it's axis of symmetry also pointing to the face. While there is no concrete evidence that the D&M Pyramid was built by ancient extraterrestrial beings, I believe that studies conducted on the formation give strong evidence that it is indeed an artificially constructed or modified formation. Studies on the geomorphological processes of Mars have been shown to be inconsistent with the characteristics of the D&M Pyramid, and analyses of the geometry of the pyramid have revealed mathematically significant numbers that may suggest intelligent design.
             The D&M pyramid has been studied by a number of scientists who have considered the different natural processes that could have caused the formation. These processes are fluvial de...