MARS SOUTH POLAR

SPOUTS - PLANTS

-FORESTS

The above second image evidence from different strip S07-02534 demonstrates a single large spout in action having
ejected heavier bodied material into the air and onto the ground very close to its base. It demonstrates an example of what these colony life spouts look like in comparison to the evidence in the above first image. This particular ejection is a large and a lone one in the terrain. Note that it has almost no long plume stain on the ground extending out from its base ejection point indicating this colony fired perhaps prematurely without the presence of strong wind currents to
spread the ejection material into a bigger get started footprint.

The above third image scene from the same E07-00860 strip looks very much like densely packed forest vegetation
evidence and that's because that is what it is. It is a scene just below and to the right of the first image scene.
I've included just a little bit of the more light reflective open terrain geology on the left edge of the image to provide
identifying contrast for the darker more light absorbing densely packed and carpeting living growth in the rest of the
image to the right of the open terrain and to make sure that you recognize the difference between what the more
solar light reflective geological terrain looks like versus the darker light absorbing living forest evidence.

This E07-00860 science data strip is a very long slice across a wide area forest where multiple different specie types
compete. In this overall forest, the growth appears in specie type groups covering large areas and do not visually seem to readily mix with each other. The above fourth image from this same strip is a scene below that in the third image
and demonstrates the densely packed row vegetation evidence seen in the third image here in this image on the left
encountering and merging with possibly a different specie type on the right. At least the texture patterns and row
orientations are visually different.

The above fifth image from the same E07-00860 strip is a scene very similar to the fourth image. This is the same
overall forest but again a scene further down below the others and further down the image strip. Here again you have a little of one kind of vegetation evidence in the lower left corner (row type) and the rest to the right of that is quite
different. Again note that the visually different looking growths do not seem to readily mix and, if true, this is evolution contrary to Earth mixed tree forests behavior.

The above sixth image demonstrates again a change in the texture patterns of the vegetation forest moving from the
left field of this image to the right. The transition boundary is a little less pronounced and more subtle here because there is a bit more gradual merging of the two specie types. The evidence on the left is a little broader, smoother and
more coarse textured whereas the evidence in the right field is smaller, tighter more knobby patterned. Although not
imaged here, the tighter more knobby patterned specie type on the right gets much more pronounced and sharper
detailed moving further down the strip.

The above seventh image is at the very bottom of the strip while the first image at the beginning of this report is
located roughly near the middle of the very long strip. We've been moving down the strip with this evidence sampling
sections along the way. Actually, I rotated the strip 90º counterclockwise to provide the views seen here but that had no impact on the evidence other than giving a more comfortable view of it. The top part of the strip is mostly open
terrain and I might add again that the resolution quality deteriorates moving down the strip from the midpoint to the
bottom and is at its worst here in this sixth image.