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Section 4: Mars Habitat 
alberi_piuma.jpg (120665 byte) If we were on planet earth, what would you think this was?
Correct. Trees.

But we are on Mars: these are - you bet - exactly what they look like. Take a look at the original image m1000071 on NASA site.

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M1501769 - Jungle view
jungle-1.jpg (106007 byte)
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Take a look at the original image m1501769 on NASA site.

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rovi.jpg (129814 byte) Vegetation can not exist with only one kind: and in effect we have another sample here.

Take a look at the original image m1000005 on NASA site.


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alghe_spaghetti.jpg (87678 byte) Another clear picture showing something that could not be nor an artifact neither a rock: these are vegetables.

Notice the giant mushroom on the right. Check it out at NASA site: this is image  m1000064.

 

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wpe20.jpg (36912 byte)  

M1800277

Vegetation? Mars Salad? Anyway these plants (I couldn't define it better) cover huge extensions of terrain.

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radici.jpg (45929 byte) Cracks in the ground or roots of bushes? anyway they smoke. Check this out ay NASA site, image m1001200

 

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Palms or bushes? Sorry, it's Mars. So this image should not exist.

In fact it does exists and is visible at NASA site m0804688

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 palma_large.jpg (35663 byte)
Dunes or plants?
Everything on Mars is officially explained with "geological" or "vulcanic" origin, or with "sand dunes". This image shows the "dunes" very close, finally. Do they look like dunes?
plants1.jpg (151845 byte)
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original image is visible at NASA m1000406


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