Mushrooms on Mars? Scientists Claim to Have Found Evidence of FUNGI on the Red Planet – Or Are They Just Rock Formations?

• Mushrooms on Mars? Scientists Claim to Have Found Evidence of FUNGI on the Red Planet – Or Are They Just Rock Formations?
  by RYAN MORRISON FOR MAILONLINE, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
  * Researchers studied photos of the Martian surface taken by rovers and orbiters
  * They say there are repeating and changing patterns of dark patches
  * They also saw evidence of circular blobs that appeared and grew in a few days
  * These are evidence of fungi, mold, lichens, algae and similar species, they say
  * The authors say it would be ‘surprising’ if there wasn’t life on the Martian surface
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  A scientist dubbed the ‘Space Tiger King’ has claimed that strange ‘puffball-like’ rocks on Mars are actually mushrooms. 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.
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  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.
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