Olivier Planchon's scientific contributions

... In support of this theory, is evidence of fossilized metazoans on Mars (Armstrong 2021a;Joseph 2020bJoseph , 2021aSuamanarathna et al. 2021) and evidence that 800 million years ago, Earth (and presumably Mars) were struck by an armada of meteorites, which may have transferred innumerable viruses and other organisms to Earth (Joseph et al. 2020a, Joseph & Duvall, 2021. Even if Martian organisms were not transferred to Earth, the fact that specimens on Mars that resemble stromatolites, algae, fungus, lichens, and metazoan invertebrates are nearly identical to those of Earth (Joseph et al. 2020a,b;Joseph et al. 2021a,c;Armstrong 2021a,b;Elewa 2021Latif et al. 2021Bianciardi 2022); and that based on sequential photos fungi appear to be emerging from the soil, growing larger or smaller or moving to new locations (Joseph et al. 2021b), should be viewed as evidence that similar species evolved, possibly independently, on two worlds; and that the same viral genetic seeds fell upon both planets: repeated viral invasions that led to the metamorphosis of similar forms of life independently and in parallel on two different worlds. ...

... As documented in Section X of the present report, in addition to Viking 1, dozens of rocks photographed by Viking 2 are matted with greenish-colored masses that clearly resemble colonies of vegetative matter that may include algae, lichens, fungi, and mosses. Formations resembling algae, lichens, fungi (Latiff et al. 2021;Joseph et al. , 2021, and fossilized algae (Kaźmierczak 2016(Kaźmierczak , 2020Bianciardi et al. 2021;Rizzo et al. 2021 Figure 34: Utopia Planitia, Viking 2. Vesicular green colored matter and vesicular sediments that appear to include vesicular basalt, tafoni and those with trace fossils. Note "spongy" (hydrated) appearance of sediment in the lower right. ...