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     Mr. Hoagland then began to think culturally about The Face.  If it were artificial, where would be the best vantage point from which to view this massive sculpture?  

To the west of The Face, he found a small grouping of pyramidal structures.  Mountains can be pyramidal.  But what's interesting about these mountains, is that they lie at a 90-degree angle to the axis of symmetry of The Face. 

     Within these structures Hoagland called, "The City" is a group of four small oblong mounds, set deep within the surrounding landforms and arranged in a regular pattern; they're 90 degrees apart, with reference to a fifth circular mound in the center.  

Hoagland termed this structure, the "City Square."  The City Square is located at the exact lateral center of The City.   

     The City Square is set deep within a pentagonal arrangement of five larger structures, giving it the appearance of architectural organization, as can be seen in the above detailed conceptual layout of the city, as done by architect Robert Fiertek.  Mr. Fiertek is a graduate from The Pratt Institute in New York City.  He has worked in several large New England architecture firms including Jeter Cook & Jepson Architects in Hartford, and Fletcher Thompson in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  He has won several local and regional awards and has been honored for both his work in architecture and in film.  One of his innovative videos continues to be shown at the Pratt institute of Film and Video as part of the class curriculum.

     On the east side of The City, is a structure that has been termed, the Fort.  

It consists of two short walls that meet at a sharp angle.  It's a trapezoidal object measuring about 2 kilometers across.  The object appears to include several wall-like sections enclosing an inner space.  Two of the walls appear to contain regularly spaced markings or indentations.  The remnants of the walls meeting at a corner, a deep central core, and the apparent remains of higher structures on the west side all suggest a structure that has collapsed inward.

     Carl Sagan once wrote, "Intelligent life on Earth first reveals itself through the geometrical regularity of its constructions."  With this in mind, and realizing that unless he could turn this investigation to a discussion of numbers the investigation would just be spinning its wheels, Mr. Hoagland began to measure the objects.  

     From the center mound of The City Square there is an unbroken sight line to the mouth on the Face.  Mr. Hoagland wondered about this alignment and thought of the monuments here on Earth that had significant alignments.  

The Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, Teotihuacán, all these ancient sites and many others have been shown to have well documented astronomical alignments, functioning as markers of celestial bodies, and calendars.  So he thought to apply this same sort of logic to the Martian Monuments.  

     He realized that The Face was in a northeast/southwest orientation so as to afford the alleged Martians in the City, a view of the sunrise over The Face.  He then used an established equation to confirm his suspicions.  He also took into account the axis shift of Mars as written of by Hal Masursky, formerly of the Viking team.  

Mr. Hoagland discovered that anyone standing within the City Square would have seen the cool blue star of the Earth rise out of the rifle site of the mouth of The Face at dawn, followed afterward by the Sun itself, during the summer solstice.  Equally as interesting, the City is located on a possible Martian shoreline, The Face could then possibly be an island, creating an aesthetic reflection.

     The only problem with this alignment, is that the most recent time it could have occurred because of the processional wobble of Mars, was half a million years ago.  It could also have happened 1.5 million years ago, 2.5 million years ago, and so on and so forth, or older.  So this alignment can't really be used to date the site with any degree of accuracy.