Nine “spherical specimens” were said to be similar to fungal puffballs on Earth.
Aerial photographs captured by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter showed mushrooms growing on the red planet.The argument was made in a preprint study that had not been peer-reviewed in the May 2021 issue of the journal Advances in Microbiology. In it, researchers claimed that NASA rovers and Mars orbiters collected visual evidence of fungi on Mars — a claim that has been widely contested by the broader scientific community.
In early May 2021, several authors of a preprint study published in the scientific journal Advances in Microbiology argued that photographs collected by NASA rovers and Mars orbiters showed evidence of what they believed could prove that fungi were found growing on the red planet. Soon after, headlines and social media chatter sprouted up, claiming that science had found mushrooms on Mars.
At the time of this writing, the study was published in preprint, which means that it was in its early stage of production and had not yet been peer-reviewed and critiqued by other scientists. As Snopes has, research that has not been peer-reviewed has typically not been rigorously vetted by other researchers who can highlight discrepancies, limitations, and other errors in observations required before publishing the study in a reputable journal.
The team went on to describe their analysis of nine “spherical specimens” that they claimed were similar to fungal puffballs on Earth. These nine were photographed at a location known as Sol 1145 that the scientists compared to an additional 12 specimens they claimed had “emerged from beneath the soil” at another location known as Sol 1148. The original nine could reportedly be seen closer together with expanding diameters, which suggested that they may have been growing and multiplying.
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