Mars found "mushrooms", experts: is growing, or Mars life!

Mars is "buzzing" right now, with several human spacecraft visiting the red planet. China's SkyQuest 1 is orbiting Mars and will soon have the opportunity to land on its surface. NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers, the Insight Mars lander, and the Jiji Mars helicopter are working on the surface of Mars.

Humans are keen to explore Mars because there is much evidence that Mars had an environment similar to Earth's in the distant past, with a surface covered with large amounts of liquid water in which life could have been nurtured. Although Mars is now very desolate, but in the future, through the transformation of the Martian environment, the red planet will have the potential to become the second home of mankind in the universe.

Astronomers speculate that there may be some life hidden on Mars, which seems lifeless today. According to a forthcoming research paper in Advances in Microbiology [1], the Curiosity rover has photographed what looks like a "mushroom," and scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Institution and the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences believe that it could be very well be The discovery that some kind of fungus is growing on Mars has generated a lot of buzz among scientists.

As Curiosity traveled on Mars, it photographed very specific white orbs that emerged from the Martian soil and looked like the mabobacteria that grow on Earth. Initially, astronomers thought the orbs were nothing more than unusually shaped Martian rocks.

However, when Curiosity observed these orbs for many days, it made an unexpected discovery: the

After only a few Martian days (1 Martian day is about 24.6 hours long), the orbs became larger and new orbs emerged from the ground, looking very much like growing fungi. In addition, some "Mars mushrooms" will grow back after being crushed by Curiosity's wheels. Even on Curiosity, a sample of black fungus is suspected to have grown. So, are this Urartian life?

On Earth, fungi generally grow in humid environments. And Mars is incredibly dry, as far as the eye can see is a desert, there is no trace of water, does this mean that there are no conditions on Mars to grow fungi?

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back photos showing that water may be present, even in liquid form, in areas of Mars other than the poles. When the Martian summer comes, distinct dark streaks appear on some mountain slopes, several meters wide and hundreds of meters long, and they grow at a rate of 5 to 10 meters per day. In the cold season, these streaks disappear again with them.

This phenomenon can best be explained by water flows, but these are not fresh water, but salty water containing a very high concentration of salt. Because the temperature of Mars in summer is not very high, fresh water is also easily frozen. And for salty water mixed with high concentrations of salt, its freezing point can drop to more than ten degrees below zero, and they are ablcan liquid at lower temperatures.

Astronomers believe that there is a good chance that liquid water still exists in some areas of Mars. Previous studies have shown that there are even lakes of liquid water below the surface of Mars. We have reason to believe that Mars still has the conditions for life to survive.

In addition, NASA's photos of Mars also show that in the spring, large black webs appear on the surface that can grow up to 300 meters long and disappear again in the winter, a situation that repeats itself every year. Astronomers speculate that this is a black fungus, lichen, mold, or alga,e on Mars.

If there is life on Mars, it may have originated on Earth. Early human launches of Mars probes were not strictly sterilized, and some Earth microbes may have arrived on Mars with the probes. Also, rocks on Earth would have been blasted into space and fallen to Mars because of asteroid impacts, which would have brought Earth life with them.