The Episode One - Mars Connection
The Equinox Observatory
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 location at 4° S lat., 72.45° W long. original image data: MOC #08204 |
After this, I entered the image in my MOC database and discontinued work on it.
Then on August 22, 1999, I read this article from Tom Van Flandern about discoveries he made, concerning the Cydonia Face and an ancient pole shift on Mars:
We draw attention to the fact that the Cydonia area is right on the old martian equator, and the "Face" is oriented perpendicular to that old equator.
As you can see on the picture above, the two similar objects seem to be aligned along an invisible line and support by their form, aiming from the smaller object through the large one.
If you draw this virtual line, you can measure an angle of 40° towards the current martian equator. Please take in mind, that this angle is in reality around 45° as the image is taken at an lower angle than 90° above. (more exact calculations will follow in the next days)
To calculate the latitude s towards the old pole, as van Flandern did,
we have to use this formula with the old pole (north?) at 45° N, 160° W.:
s computes to 91.10 °, which means this construction was formerly located on the old martian equator!
Now we calculate the correction angle for the orientation of the virtual aiming line:
With s=91.10° as computed before, we get -44.96° as correction value for a.
That means, as the virtual line is currently oriented +45° away from the equator, it was oriented exactly at the martian equator before the pole shift as +45° has to be corrected by - 44.96° to get the old orientation!
With this results, I can reasonable say, that this construction was an Observatory to watch the sun raising or setting through the large and the small structure, viewed from the ground behind the small object during Equinox!
During a year on Mars and Earth, there are two equinox-dates when the sun raises precisely in the East and the length of day and night is equal. The most ancient civilizations on Earth built this kind of equinox-observatories. Later, mostly solstice-observatories were created where you can observe the sun raising on the summer-solstice and setting on the winter-solstice.
More proofs for the ancient alignment at the equator are the other structures only a few hundred meters away from the observatory which are also aligned at 45° towards the current equator. See more on picture 1 and picture 2.
If you are wondering about the orientation to view the sun raising in the West through the large building, you have to take in mind, that a pole shift greater than 90° was possible, which would cause this exchange of East and West. Another usage with the current rotation direction of the Observatory could be watching the sunset in the West or the raise of a planet above the equator.
Note, that the ancient City on Mars I found some month ago, is also oriented parallel to the same old equator and located only a few km away from it!
