Mushrooms on Mars? Scientists believe they've found proof of

Fri, 07 May 2021 17:55 UTC
© NASA/Advances in Microbiology/ScreenshotCould 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 claim shows fungus-like objects growing on the Red Planet.
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 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, some scientists coined the term "Martian mushrooms" to describe the mysterious objects, because of how they resemble lichens and mushrooms, while in another study, fungi and lichen experts classified the spheres as "puffballs" — a white, spherical fungus belonging to the phylum

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