Microscopic bugs moving on mars?

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"Life on Mars? Movement of Microorganism-like objects caught on the Mars Phoenix Microscopic imager by time-lapse imaging. Judge for yourself, is this the first real Martian Life forms that the world has ever seen?"




www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhfSjJeQf58

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Comments on the video:


mhhecht 3 years ago

Ron, These substrates are vertical, and we moved them in and out between frames to adjust the focus. The stage vibrates when we do this, and some particles slide down. Most of your animations are of our magnetic substrates, and the sliding tells us which particles are more or less magnetic (the reddish glassy ones move more readily than the coarse brown ones). This helps us understand how the various types of particles formed.

Michael Hecht, Phoenix investigator
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Ron Bennett 3 years ago

Thanks Michael for that summation, always glad to contribute to finding answers. My main question is the magnetic instrument turned on during the entire length of the animations, the color images where I was lucky enough to make more than two slides because the RGB filters werent available all the time, runs 15 minutes or more between the first image to the last one. Some of the moving red glassy objects seem to be fluid jell-like when they moved.

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phoenix sol 123 is one of the most interesting to me.

could be a magnetic effect, but if so, why aren't they all moving in the same direction?



www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/images/raw/OM/om_topgallery_collection_archive_1.html

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phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=36462&cID=321

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pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/data/phoenix/phxsci_0xxx/data/ssi/

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www.met.tamu.edu/mars/directory.html