About this episode
Richard Hoagland and Tom Van Flandern provide detailed analysis of high-resolution Mars photographs showing the Cydonia complex. After years of pressure from researchers and public demands, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor captured stunning new images of controversial Martian structures. Hoagland recounts the political struggle to force NASA to photograph Cydonia, including the role of listener campaigns and formal agreements that were subsequently violated when images sat unreleased. The new photographs reveal extraordinary detail of the Tholus, a raised oval structure with what appears to be a deteriorated tetrahedral building on top. The geometric relationships between structures continue displaying the 19.5 degree tetrahedral constant predicted by Hoagland's hyperdimensional physics model. Van Flandern offers astronomical context while they examine evidence for artificial construction. The conversation explores NASA's institutional resistance to seriously investigating potential extraterrestrial artifacts and the troubling pattern of withholding or degrading Cydonia imagery. This represents a crucial chapter in the ongoing investigation of possible ancient Martian civilization.