Indian microbiologist Regina Dass and several other researchers analyzed many photographs of the surface of Mars taken by the Curiosity apparatus and came to the unexpected conclusion: there is plant life on Mars!
The unusual objects they found in the pictures are very similar to terrestrial mushrooms and lichens.
And this is not just another statement from enthusiastic researchers, but a serious scientific work published in the Journal of Astrobiology and Space Science Reviews.
In one of the pictures, you can see a cluster of rounded organisms that could well be stones, if not for the presence of mushroom-like legs. One of these legs is perfectly visible in the fragment below.
In other photographs of the surface of Mars, scientists saw on the rocks strange volumetric spots with fringed, uneven edges. They look extremely similar to lichens or something like moss.
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In total, the researchers found 15 photos with mysterious mushrooms or lichens. And if you look closely at them, then these formations are really very similar to the forms of plant life.
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Anticipating the words of skeptics that all these objects are actually stones, Dass replies that there are no geological and inorganic forms on Earth that can create such a stem and stem.
The work was reviewed by six independent scientists and eight senior editors, according to the editors of the Journal of Astrobiology and Space Science Reviews. Of these, 11 people recommended the job for publication and only three rejected it. Also, some scientists have suggested that some of the images may contain samples of hematite - an iron mineral.
So far, NASA scientists have not commented on the publication in any way.
