I'm new here. See my 5 second video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O68Xop-WpM
Source and background info is at:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/MarsLichen.pdf
There is all kinds of stuff in motion in the Sol 112 Phoenix
micrographs. This is to me an indication of living material, lichen-like material.
For example, a browser can be used to overlay register and then toggle between the following three photos, all taken using a red light source, and having slightly differing focus points. The above video was provided as an easy substitute for this process. It shows unmistakable motion of many objects, some flat or leaf-like, some clumps rotating about on thin stalks:
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=32742&cID=298
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=32764&cID=298
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=32772&cID=298
Some of the Sol 112 photos show what may be Perithecia, little ball like fruiting bodies with now opening ostioles.
Horace Heffner
