But before you do, may I suggest you read about the history of its lead author? Credit: Brainmind This is him on his website “Brainmind.” I’m not making that up. Do we really need to go any further in debunking this nonsense? I’ve never been to Mars, but I’m led to believe there are rocks, dust, and wind. Or, if you’re the “Occam’s Razor” type: the wind is just blowing sand around. You can clearly see that the Earth’s sandy crust is being broken apart as the expanding highway organism grows beneath it. You see that? To heck with fungus, that’s an entire highway growing out of the sand in front of a moving bus. If you believe those images demonstrate fungus growing on Mars, I’m about to blow your frickin’ mind. The persistent radiation at the Chernobyl site, for example, is not equal to, analogous to, or equivalent to the radiation we find in deep space or on Mars.Īfter that, the researchers claim that NASA images show the Mars rover destroying a patch of fungi with its tracks and a subsequent new patch of fungi growing in its wake.Ĭredit: NASA OMG, those rocks look like puffball mushrooms! Oh yeah, I forgot the gravity and erosion factors are different on planets that aren’t Earth. The only thing the researchers appear to get right is that some fungi do thrive in radiation-filled environments. After obliteration of spherical specimens by the rover wheels, new sphericals-some with stalks-appeared atop the crests of old tracks. Sequential photos document that fungus-like Martian specimens emerge from the soil and increase in size, including those resembling puffballs (Basidiomycota). The paper is titled “Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential Images.” And it’s a doozy.įungi thrive in radiation intense environments. As far as we can tell, all of the recent articles discussing the “discovery of fungi” on Mars are based on a recently published research paper discussing photographs from the Mars rover. If there are mushrooms on Mars, the people on our planet have yet to uncover any evidence of their existence. And so-called ‘scientists’ did not explain the existence of fungi on Mars in a research paper. ![]() The Mars rover did not take a picture of fungi growing on the planet. But, irrespective of their origin, one thing that most astronomers insist on with high confidence is that they are definitely not mushrooms!įor weather, science, and COVID-19 updates on the go, download The Weather Channel App (on Android and iOS store).There is no evidence that mushrooms or any other form of life exists on Mars. These spherical figures are present all around NASA’s Opportunity landing site, beneath the soil, and even within rocks. ![]() Others believe that they could have been produced by volcanic eruptions. Some argue that these spherical rocks have been created by the gradual accumulation of the material available in a slowly evaporating liquid water environment. While we have been aware of their existence for many years now, scientists are still debating their exact origin. The aforementioned observations aren’t the first instance of these haematite concretions getting noticed, for they were discovered by cameras aboard NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity right after it landed in 2004. Haematite is a common iron oxide compound and is widely found in rocks and soils. Haematite concretions are small sphere-shaped pieces of mineral haematite. In fact, scientists have already been aware of their existence for a little over a decade. However, according to reports, these forms aren’t living organisms at all, but “haematite concretions”. Moreover, the researchers noted that even after the Mars Rover would demolish these figures under its wheels, new spherical figures with stalks would pop up in their place.Ĭiting these changes in shape and location, the researchers argued that these figures exhibited living behaviour and suggested that there is life on Mars. The recent study argued that sequential photographs of Mars’ surface document fungus-like Martian specimens emerging from the soil and increasing in size. Can mushrooms, which thrive on humid nooks in our world, bear the harsh, dry conditions of our neighbouring world? Recently, researchers wondered if they had encountered evidence for mushroom-like life forms on the surface of Mars. ![]() ![]() But could they find a way to thrive on the Red Planet? It is incredible how mushrooms can sprout under any circumstances-under a park bench, in a discarded pot filled with soil, humid closet spaces, a marshy spot in the forest-leaving no stone unturned.
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