Seeding the Solar System with Life: Mars, Venus, Earth, Moon, Protoplanets

Abstract

In the space of the entire universe, the only conclusive evidence of life, is found on Earth. Although the ultimate source of all life is unknown, many investigators believe Earth, Mars, and Venus may have been seeded with life when these planets, and the sun, were forming in a galactic cluster of thousands of stars and protoplanets. Yet others hypothesize that while and after becoming established members of this solar system, these worlds became contaminated with life during the heavy bombardment phase when struck by millions of life-bearing meteors, asteroids, comets and oceans of ice. Because bolide impacts may eject tons of life-bearing debris into space, and as powerful solar winds may blow upper atmospheric organisms into space, these three planets may have repeatedly exchanged living organisms for billions of years. In support of these hypotheses is evidence suggestive of stromatolites, algae, and lichens on Mars, fungi on Mars and Venus, and formations resembling fossilized acritarchs and metazoans on Mars, and fossilized impressions resembling microbial organisms on the lunar surface, and dormant microbes recovered from the interior of a lunar camera. The evidence reviewed in this report supports the interplanetary transfer hypothesis and that Earth may be seeding this solar system with life.

Cocoons, Fungi, Nematodes, Rhizoids, Annelids, Eggs, Arthropoda in Gale Crater, Mars?

“…It is thus noteworthy that some of the cyanobacteria, fungi, and worm-like and cocoon-like structures presented in this paper bear a resemblance to putative fossilized specimens discovered in meteorites as discussed by Wainwright and Wickramasinghe [24]. It has also been reported that cyanobacteria, fungi, lichens, seeds, worms, insecta, crustaceans, and their eggs survive long term exposure to space outside the ISS, and in Mars-like environments, and could survive interplanetary transfer to Mars [15,26,[31][32].…”

“…(1) Life on primordial Earth and Mars may have originated on other more ancient worlds [23][24][25][26], and these forms of life, including viruses, contained in their genomes the same foundation genes [23,[27][28][29]: the "genetic seeds" from which arose and evolved similar forms of life on both planets.…”

Mars: Life, Subglacial Oceans, Abiogenic Photosynthesis, Seasonal Increases and Replenishment of Atmospheric Oxygen

“…In addition, structures resembling stromatolites possibly constructed by photosynthesizing-oxygen-producing algae / cyanobacteria have been observed on Mars (Bianciardi et al 2014(Bianciardi et al , 2015Joseph et al 2019Joseph et al , 2020aRizzo 2020;Rizzo andCantasano 2009, 2016;Ruff and Farmer 2016) at least one of which is dated to 3.7 bya (Noffke 2015). Although it has been questioned if all micro-thromoboliteson Earth or Mars-are truly biological, eight of the Martian sedimentary-stromatolites structures, so far reported, are nearly identical to the concentric-domical stromatolites of Lake Thetis, Australia, and may range in age from a few thousand to a few million years (Joseph et al 2020c). Moreover, they were photographed in the presence of microbial mats and consist of numerous open-cone-apertures and fenestra (Joseph et al 2020a,c,d).…”