Could there be mushrooms on Mars? In a new paper, an international team of scientists from countries including the U.S., France, and China have gathered and compared photographic evidence they say shows fungus-like objects growing on the Red Planet. But other experts in the scientific community are skeptical of the claims.
In their paper, which appears in Scientific Research Publishing's Advances in Microbiology, the scientists analyze images taken by NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity rovers, plus the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera. The scientists say the objects in question show "chalky-white colored spherical shaped specimens," which the Mars Opportunity team initially said was a mineral called hematite.
Later studies refuted the hematite claim. Soon, a scientist named Rhawn Gabriel Joseph—the lead author of the new paper—coined the term "Martian mushrooms" to describe the mysterious objects, because of how they resemble lichens and mushrooms.
Could there be mushrooms on Mars? In a new paper, an international team of scientists from countries including the U.S., France, and China have gathered and compared photographic evidence they say shows fungus-like objects growing on the Red Planet. But other experts in the scientific community are skeptical of the claims.
In their paper, which appears in Scientific Research Publishing's Advances in Microbiology, the scientists analyze images taken by NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity rovers, plus the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera. The scientists say the objects in question show "chalky-white colored spherical shaped specimens," which the Mars Opportunity team initially said was a mineral called hematite.
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