Let me say this about Hoagland:
I applaud his efforts to re-ignite interest in space exploration. His chosen method is unusual, appealing to speculation, roads paved with gold, 72 virgin grapes and all that archaic nonsense. However, when he announced he would be getting a mission together within the year to send a camera to the moon to photograph the domes and glass skyscrapers and then failed to do so [this was several years ago,] it became obvious that others would have to do the actual space work. He is a journalist and is familiar with research in the archives; he is not inclined to do theoretical science nor work in the lab.
So, I applaud his PR work. It has stimulated a level of interest. However, Congress won't approve a mission to Mars to check out the Face, nor a mission to the moon to check out a glass skyscraper. Congress has reasons for doing things, but exploration and science are not among them.
Mars craters: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor's high resolution image shows gullies on the walls of a meteor impact crater in the Newton Basin, in Sirenum Terra, Mars. The photo is among a group of 18 812 images being added to the Mars Global Surveyor online image gallery. Photo: AP
"Yo, wench, peel me some seedless grapes!"