Motion of Mars lichen under Phoenix microscope

See 5 second video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O68Xop-WpM

Source and background info is at: http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/MarsLichen.pdf

There is all kinds of stuff in motion in the Sol 112 Phoenix
micrographs. This is an indication of living material, lichen-like
material.

For example, a browser can be used to overlay register and then toggle
between the following three photos, all taken using a red light
source, and having slightly differing focus points. The above video
was provided as an easy substitute for this process. It shows
unmistakable motion of many objects, some flat or leaf-like, some
clumps rotating about on thin stalks:

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/image...=32742&cID=298

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/image...=32764&cID=298

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/image...=32772&cID=298

Some of the Sol 112 photos show what may be Perithecia, little ball
like fruiting bodies with now opening ostioles.

Horace Heffner