Puffballs from Mars

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351252619_Fungi_on_Mars_Evidence_of_Growth_and_Behavior_From_Sequential_Images

There comes a time (and I think it was reached back in 1976, honestly) when you have to invoke Occam's Razor. It's somewhat disconcerting to have one's image of a clean, dry Mars, lifeless for a million years, replaced by that of

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[whitetail]

Fascinating and compelling!

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The picture of the blueberries having grown back after two years particularly so, I think. The crawler tracks are still there, so it's not pre-existing ones uncovered by erosion or anything. New ones grew in some fashion, either mineral excrescence or life.