MARS FOREST LIFE BIO-
DIVERSITY-4b
Report #110
December 2, 2006
The above are all Different Samples of Earth Lichen
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Credit: Donna Maske & Texas Tech University Field Research Station
The above four color images, constituting the fifth image set in this report, are samples of Earth Lichen roughly visually comparable to some Mars evidence you will see here. The purpose of these very few samples is to give you some comparison familiarity with what some lichen types look like here on Earth while also demonstrating that Earth based lichens come in a great variety of appearances even in just this one general type of very tightly packed rock lichen that can sometimes be visually confused with geology. Likewise be reminded that there are no doubt also varieties that have not yet been discovered or cataloged right here on Earth must less what may be found on another independent world with differing environmental adaptation factors.
Note that, in the above imaging, the top two known lichen types tend to look like lumpy rocks or geological rubble with subtle differences in height and, although still densely packed, a little more widely spaced apart from each other. Note that the bottom two types tend to be more uniformly tightly packed with only extremely narrow gap spaces between the colony clumps and they also tend to be a little more level in their height. It should also be noted at this point that other Earth lichen evidence very similar to this but not imaged here can be even more level in their height and uniform looking very much like flattened artificial irregular looking tile.
For the most part, when it comes time to propagate, a small area breaches and widens in the top of the colony clump's upper surface and spores in this spot spew out into the air typically carried on the wind that also helps serve as their trigger. In other cases, large dark globular fruiting bodies develop on the colony upper surface very much like plant blooms that serve essentially the same ultimate purpose. On Earth, such temporary fruiting body extensions, also take advantage of rain drops acting as small bombs that scatter the tiny dry powdery spores very much like what happens with certain mushroom spore packets.
It should be noted that here on Earth sufficient moisture content on the surface the lichen is attached to is often a part of their need in order to flourish. This can be base ground moisture in origin or differential cooling air condensate collecting damp to harder surfaces. It perhaps should also be noted at this point that some of these processes are similar to undersea coral and polyps doing their thing in water currents here on Earth carrying their spores. This suggests that, whether now adapted to atmospheric or underwater conditions, consistent water resource is likely part of their ancestral origins and still essential to their survival.
Once that is understood, another point is this. If lichen are present in the Mars environment in giant forms and flourishing in vast forested areas, then we can probably anticipate that sufficient water content is present in some form in their immediate environment more than likely via universally prevalent ground water conditions in the case of the huge life forms. Now with that digested, let's get on with some more Mars evidence.
Note in the above sixth image from strip R11-03821, even though the satellite imaging resolution is of course poor, the densely packed lichen looking growth on the right as compared to the top fifth image Earth based lichen evidence. Note that there is very little visual difference between this Earth and Mars evidence except of course in scale with giantism (by our Earth human interpretation) on Mars appearing to be a norm. Remember that this Mars imaging is roughly 230 miles distant from the target meaning that only very large objects can be seen at all.
The strong light reflective color area on the left is a steep downward slope and geological terrain. It demonstrates what true geological terrain looks like in this satellite imaging. There appears to be a faint imprint of lichen patterns on the top area of the slope. This is probably because the lichen has had or tried to have a foothold in this area in the past but it is just too steep and unstable to support their continued presence there and only residual patterns are left imprinted in this less stable geology. The point is that it does visually demonstrate the difference between what is truly geology and what is something else entirely. There can be no mistaking geology for the life evidence here.
The dense lichen looking growth colonies on the right are either on level plateau ground or this may be a ridge top similar to that in Report #021. We can't really tell here for sure but you can bet that it is at least an elevated area. More than likely, what we can see of the lichen looking growth is only the edge of a much larger forested area of these colonies because that is typical in this Mars environment. Further, their density and size indicates that they are aggressive and flourishing in this higher elevation site. That is important because this site is very near the edge of the South Polar Cap where one would expect it to be very cold. That they are flourishing so well so near the edge of the Cap and in an elevated normally even colder location is a serious clue both as to the likely true atmospheric temperature on Mars and the evidence's colder condition hardiness.
As you can see in the above seventh image from a different R10-02037 strip with my image taken all the way from one side of the strip to the other. This is a little more distant view showing a vast solid carpet forest of the lichen looking life form blanketing everything. No geological terrain is visible here at all as it is all covered over and engulfed by this densely packed very large colony life form. This size and scale is typical of these Mars lichen looking forests. Note also that this type of growth is different than that in the previous sixth image.
I've chosen this different evidence scene as a sample to demonstrate how vast this evidence can get in its terrain coverage and that the lichen/mold looking super growth exists on Mars in large variety just like it does here on Earth. The point being that these aren't a few isolated patches of struggling life but vast densely packed aggressively competing and flourishing species doing very well on Mars with all the implications that come with that for favorable survival conditions and that fact flies right in the face of the official position as to what the situation is on Mars. Further, once again, this site is located near the previous sixth image evidence very near to the edge of the South Polar Cap with all the implications as previously noted with the sixth image evidence.
The question is how can Earth based scientists and academics confuse evidence that looks like this as geology? Clearly, what ever you think it is, it obviously isn't geology. This failure to at least identify what something is not, appears to go beyond mere blindness into being a self induced mental cripple. That is the price of this path of accepting manipulation.
Did you know that Earth based telescopes of the past, before probes to Mars painting it as a extremely hostile environment dispelled all such "speculation," saw green advancing and retreating with the seasons out from the South Polar Cap and thought they were witnessing life flourishing and retreating? Now you couldn't get one of them to stick their head out of the holes they've retreated into. The life evidence you see here is just a part of what they were witnessing and it was just as they "speculated." Think about it, it's both ironic and sadly pathetic!
Now let's get a little more serious. The above eighth image in from yet another different M07-02970 image strip. It is both different and similar in some ways. The light reflective color evidence on the left is basically the same lichen/mold looking forest life form as in the seventh image but here is it is shown in at least two or more different stages of development or transition. The most light reflective surfaces down there mostly in the image mid area immediately to the left of the darkest evidence is the lichen looking growth in one developmental stage while the subtly slightly darker color a little further on the left is in another stage.
The much darker evidence on the right is most definitely life but the question is what kind? At first glance it looks like some kind of completely different tall feathery tree like growth. Maybe, but regardless of its slightly more conventional tall forest appearance, I suspect this may very well be a huge area of the underlying lichen looking growth in full propagation mode with a great vast multitude of massed spouts, geysers or plumes shooting dark propagation spores high into the air. Close examination that I can't adequately show here in this highly compressed imaging supports this interpretation.
It may also be that these plumes are not that temporary similar to what we think of as liquid spouts or geysers but turn much more solid and exist for a while with rigidity and structure, possibly like blooms on a plant but more than likely created by the spores that may have a mobile quality of their own. Closer examination of the thickest part of the above dark plume evidence reveals a consistent texture and fine wavy pattern in it that suggests a defined more rigid structure to this darker evidence that may suggest some measure of shorter term permanence.
The above ninth image scene is from the same M07-02970 strip and of a point in the strip immediately below the eighth image scene. This demonstrates better the mature form more light reflective lichen looking evidence on the right and bottom areas versus the subtly changed slightly darker tinted evidence on the left. The much darker spots along the bottom area are the beginning edge area of more propagation spouts or geysers developing.
The point is that all this is likely the same lichen looking growth evidence, just in different stages of dynamic transition. The lighter color growth may produce the dark spore plumes and the slightly darker evidence on the left may be swelling fertilization receptors. If so, it is an understatement to say that this is fascinating evidence of major presence life form at work substantially different than anything in our Earth experience. As for scale, I suspect you could set a large home down there on top of just any one of those many more well defined colonies giving you an idea of just how huge these objects really are, just distantly seen.
The bottom line is that no matter how unfamiliar looking this evidence may be to the Earth human eye, there is just no way that evidence like this can be confused with inanimate geology. We are almost certainly looking at a form of highly successful Mars super lichen/mold/algae colony life form flourishing in vast highly successful forest doing so well for so long that these life forms choke out almost everything else completely covering and visually hiding the true geological landscape beneath them.
In other words, such super lichen/fungi/algae evidence combined with the previously presented much more conventional looking tree evidence in other prior reports clearly indicates Mars is very much alive and well doing its own independent thing and could care less what we Earth humans allow ourselves to believe or not believe about it. What we believe and how in touch we are with reality is up to us, not Mars. The planetary truth evidence is here in front of you or are you waiting for the blind to lead you or those with hidden agendas? Beginning to get a clue yet?
Unless the secrecy agenda actually comes up with the courage to capitulate deciding to just go ahead and own up to objective truth, take its lumps, and move on with integrity, you can bet that they will eventually have to engage this evidence. When that happens, they will no doubt trout out their many minions with "qualifications" up the kazoo to diminish myself and this evidence in the most psychologically condescending and convincing manner. But, what ever the psychological tactics they weave, the hard visual evidence like that you see here will remain the same and in everyone's face.
What will you do? What will you choose? The determination to pursue and fight for truth or accept pretense? To think solely inside the box prescribed by others or outside of it a bit? It is up to you individually. Remember to that this isn't just about us, it is also about those that watch us and our choice behavior at this critical point in Earth human history. One day we will have to engage them and they us. Will we meet the measure? It is literally up to us.
DOCUMENTATION
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/hillcountry/research/Lichens.htm: This link takes you to the Texas Tech University Field Research Station page where you will find the thumbnail links that provided the Earth based lichen imaging for my fifth image set of four at the top of this Part 2 of this overall report.
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/r10_r15/images/R11/R1103821.html: This link takes you to the official R11-03821 science data strip from which my sixth image evidence in this report was drawn. The evidence is down near the bottom on the right.
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/r10_r15/images/R10/R1002037.html: This link takes you to the official R10-02037 science data strip from which my seventh image evidence in this report was drawn. The evidence scene I imaged is in the strip mid area. Note that the top area of the strip is a lot of smooth mold evidence while the bottom area is a also large area of different very lumpy mold evidence, neither one of which I've reported on here.
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M07/M0702970.html: This link takes you to the official M07-02970 science data strip from which my eighth and ninth image evidence in this report was drawn. Both image scenes are in the mid area of the strip with the ninth image scene immediately below the eighth image scene. While there, please also note the M07-02971 wide-area context image on the right and just how extensive the lichen looking evidence really is.
, Investigator
