Arthropod Martians are visible in the images sent by the Curiosity research vehicle.
The ranks of virtual archaeologists, paleontologists and biologists - usually frivolous people who look for something unexpected in images from other planets - have been joined by a very serious scientist: professor-entomologist William Romoser of Ohio University. Last Tuesday - November 19, 2019, speaking at a meeting of the American Entomological Society, he told his colleagues that he had discovered insects on Mars. Both the remains and the living. The Phys. Org portal briefly introduces the controversial, but sensational report of the scientist.
Curiosity came across insects along the way.
Romoser has an excellent reputation. He has been a professor for 45 years. Wrote 4 textbooks on entomology. The scientist is also a virologist - the founder of the Tropical Disease Institute, and concurrently - an employee of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. The probability that the professor is crazy is minimal. But he surprised his colleagues greatly.
Creatures similar in structure to earthly arthropods were found in images of the Martian surface transmitted by the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover and other self-propelled vehicles located on a neighboring planet. The professor looked at the pictures for several years. And now he has no doubt that life on Mars was and, most likely, has survived to this day. It is nourished by water, which, according to the scientist, is still in some places on the neighboring planet in liquid form.
The professor saw a beetle in the Martian sand.
Romoser demonstrated his findings - either large wasps, or beetles, whose bodies stood out against the background of the Martian soil. He pointed to the anatomical features of the "Martians", which are also characteristic of terrestrial insects - shells, antennae, wings, abdomens, a symmetrical structure and six legs.
The professor points out the structure of the Martian insect, similar to the structure of terrestrial insects.
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According to the professor, there are many finds. That is, the Martian insects show variety. And the poses of some, according to Romoser, indicate that the creatures in the photo were either moving or prepared to move.
In addition to insects, the professor also found a snake - its face is supposedly visible in the photo from Mars.
And here is the remains of a Martian snake.
By the way, the American entomologist is not the only one so brave - from among the serious. A little earlier, his colleagues from the United States, Italy and India announced life on Mars, who published an article in the scientific astrobiology journal (Journal of Astrobiology and Space Science Reviews) called Evidence of Life on Mars? - "Evidence of life on Mars?"
The authors also saw "evidence of life" - biological objects - in images from the surface of a neighboring planet. As biological objects, scientists considered balls of different sizes, caught in the frame, and growths on the Martian stones. They will assure that the balls are mushrooms - like earthly raincoats. And some whitish or, conversely, dark growths, these are lichens or mold.
Raincoat mushrooms growing on Mars.
Lichens on Martian rocks.
Not so "scientists" virtual explorers of Mars also recently pleased. They reported that they saw there someone's clawed paw. She "crawled" into the panorama, collected from the images that the rover "Curiosity" transmitted in early December 2012. Shot with the right camera on the pole (Mastcam).
Three fingers are visible on the left side of the panorama. Big fingers - from a creature the size of a man … On neighboring planets there is a lot of wonder - whoever seeks, he finds.
A clawed paw captured from Mars.
About the life discovered on Venus by the chief researcher of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS), the head of the laboratory of the department of planetary physics, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Leonid Ksanfomaliti, read Storms.
Cuttlefish native to Venus.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY
