Reply #160: Living trees? With no air or water and -200 F?

[TomNickell]

There's no scale, so I can't tell what I'm looking at, but these look like the result of some kind of physical process. Think crystallization. Snowflakes. Patterns on your window in winter.

Apply some common sense, please. There could possibly have once been simple life on Mars; conceivably might be some still there. But there aren't any forests.

And, if NASA didn't want you to see those pictures, why post them on the internet? And why -wouldn't- they want you to see them? Finding life on Mars seems like a good way to get the old budget increased.

Arthur C. Clarke will have to defend his own claims.