[Rockhounds] Pseudofossils on Mars

[Tim Fisher]

Now that's what I call pareidolia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia 

Tim Fisher
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Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 8:17 PM
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Subject: [Rockhounds] Pseudofossils on Mars

Could things that look like fossils trick us thinking there was once life on
Mars?
If you want to believe, fake Martian fossils might convince you (but they're
just rock formations).
By Elizabeth Rayne, SYFY, November 30, 20221
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/even-if-mars-had-alien-life-these-fake-fossil
s-arent-it

An open access paper is:

McMahon, S. and Cosmidis, J., 2021. False biosignatures on Mars:
anticipating ambiguity.
Journal of the Geological Society.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/jgs/article/doi/10.1144/jgs2021-050/609631/
False-biosignatures-on-Mars-anticipating-ambiguity

Related articles:

An Entomologist Claims That Mars Is Covered in Bug-Shaped Things, And He Has
'Proof'
https://www.sciencealert.com/an-entomologist-is-trying-to-convince-us-that-m
ars-is-covered-in-bugs

Does Insect/Arthropod Biodiversity Extend Beyond Earth?
Conference: Entomological Society of America, Nov. 19, 2019, St. Louis, MO
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337155924_Does_InsectArthropod_Biod
iversity_Extend_Beyond_Earth

OHIO entomologist: Photos show evidence of life on Mars
https://web.archive.org/web/20191120184750/https://www.ohio.edu/news/2019/11
/ohio-entomologist-photos-show-evidence-life-mars

Yours,

Paul H.


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