MARS FOREST LIFE

BIO-DIVERSITY

Report #168

This report derives from a single MGS MOC E07-02038 image strip of a site in the South Polar Region but well out from
the Polar Cap. The view in all the report images here is from one side edge of the strip to the other encompassing as
much context information as possible. The general terrain around this site area is characterized by lowlands that tend
to shallow water wet conditions at certain times with most of the water sinking into the soil. When dryer colder time
comes, what water is left on the surface freezes into low level areas of water ice and the sub-soil is infused with
water ice.

The above second image demonstrates a sample site below that presented in the first image. It is just more of the
same but now note with less in larger area water ice on the surface and more dark biological life presence. Note that
the dark bio-life here is not really mature enough and therefore large enough to be seen with better visual detail.
Also note how the more light reflective but residual water ice tends to collect in the lower level areas tending to form
depression like channels in the terrain.

The above third image is a spot a little further down in the strip below the first and second image sites. Now in the left and center areas note that we see the beginning presence of a larger and a bit more mature form of what I call
"clump" biological life evidence. From a distant view above like this, the evidence tends to look a little like individual
tree tops but it is not a vegetative life forms like trees.

The above fourth and fifth images moving progressively down to the bottom of the strip demonstrates more of this
major biological life form presence in the terrain. Note that in these images the evidence is in a more mature larger form and in greater densities. However, the evidence here is in a more open configuration similar to a huge bush with
many branching's even though it is a colony form and what is seen here is not its most mature form.