Mushrooms on Mars? Scientists claim to have found evidence of FUNGI on the Red Planet - or are they just rock formations?

Daily Mail UK ^ | Ryan Morrison

[BenLurkin]

Microbiologist Dr Xinli Wei from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, astrophysicist Dr Rudolph Schild from Harvard-Smithsonian and Dr. Rhawn Gabriel Joseph, aka Space Tiger King, made the claims after studying images snapped by NASA's Curiosity rover on the Red Planet and the orbiting HiRISE craft.

Their study, was has met been with skepticism from the scientific community, argues that what NASA called rocks are actually fungus-like specimens growing in the Martian landscape.

The trio claim that these 'mushrooms' seem to shrink, appear and disappear over a period of days, weeks and months. In one example, the team says there is evidence of fungi resembling Puffballs on Earth 're-sprouting' in tracks left behind by the NASA Curiosity rover.

Wei, Armstrong and Joseph have been sifting through NASA images of Mars for years and have shared their many 'discoveries' with the world on numerous occasions.

In April 2020, Armstrong and Joseph released a similar study on Research Gate that also claimed mushrooms were growing on Mars.

'Throughout its mission at Eagle Crater, Meridiani Planum, the rover Opportunity photographed thousands of mushroom-lichen-like formations with thin stalks and spherical caps, clustered together in colonies attached to and jutting outward from the tops and sides of rocks,' reads the 2020 paper that was not peer-reviewed.

[Magnum44]

I dont know why you want to start an argument. ITAR was not the question I responded to. You are creating an argument that does not exist now. ITAR and who manages it is not the same as being under DoD as a department. And your statement is blatantly wrong. NASA has its own PR department. Only when it involves the disclosure of tech that could be used to an adversaries advantage does ITAR apply.

Any reason...

nonsense.

[Billthedrill]

You’re...you’re not from around here, are you?

[cgbg]

Read my post #32 again.

You do not understand.

DOD has to have real-time veto power during missions or potential national security secrets could be endangered in real time.

[Ezekiel]

So what is the Morel of your story?

That some things are not to be truffled with!

[Magnum44]

Now you have escalated to

[cgbg]

Just the facts, no drama.

This document (read the footnotes) is the tip of the iceberg:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB509/

[Magnum44]

Good article. Your continual posting to me is still drama.

NASA has a relationship with DoD. I said that and now that’s what you are saying. You said DOD has release authority on everything NASA publishes. False, and you continue to make that inference from the article you post and the Cold War congressional text from 60 years ago.

You get an award for moving goalposts to avoid a simple admission that your original post were nonsensically over the top. And starting an argument when there wasn’t one.

Now I’m sorry, but you’ll have to pay me if you want more argument

[cgbg]

We have nothing to argue about—I am offering you a trail of breadcrumbs through a land of classified and redacted documents.

If you choose not to follow that trail, that is your choice.

[Magnum44]

I have spent my careers as a warrior or supporting the warrior and the last 16 of those years as a defense contractor in the classified and unclassified space world. You haven’t walked me down any path I haven’t worked before.

[dfwgator]

Oh Gus, the garderner’s gone now
And you went with him too

The fungus here
Reminds me of
The fun Gus is having with you...

Benny Hill - My Garden of Love