Digitate Opaline Silica Structures (Biosignatures ?) Found on Mars

[Oxytropidoceras]

Scientists Think They Finally Found Evidence of Ancient

Life on Mars. by Sage Lazzaro, Observer

http://observer.com/2016/11/scientists-think-they-finally-found-evidence-of-ancient-life-on-mars/

 

Ruff, S. W., and J. D. Farmer, 2016, Silica deposits on

Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures

at El Tatio in Chile. Nature Communications 7, Article

number: 13554 (2016) doi:10.1038/ncomms13554

Received: 14 April 2016, Accepted: 13 October 2016

Published online: 17 November 2016

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13554

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[The Amateur Paleontologist]

At this rate, we're probably soon going to find opalised microbial fossils on Mars. This is so exciting!