The NASA-JPL images relayed to Earth by land-based vehicles (“rovers”), sent to Mars via spacecraft are available to the public
on the internet. This database of photos, both raw images and compiled panoramic mosaics, that has been collected over many
years by several different missions has been used in this study, mostly from Curiosity rover (NASA/JPL). Individual images were
carefully studied while varying photographic parameters such as brightness, contrast, saturation, inversion, and so on. No
content was added, or removed.
The following criteria were useful in identifying life forms: dramatic departure from the surroundings, clarity of form, body
symmetry, segmentation of body parts, repeating form, skeletal remains, and observation of forms in close proximity to one
another. Particular postures, evidence of motion, flight, apparent interaction as suggested by relative positions, and shiny eyes
were taken to be consistent with the presence of living forms. Once a clear image of a given form was identified and described, it
was useful in facilitating recognition of other less clear, but none-the-less valid, images of the same basic form.
The descriptions and interpretations of images are somewhat tentative, and may well change with more study and as knowledge
of Martian fauna increases. I encourage you to check my findings for yourself. The URLs of the photos used will be listed on my
website, scienceofentomology.com and in formal publication of this material in the future.
