Compelling Evidence of Fossils and Microbialites on Ancient Mars

Vincenzo Rizzo is a Geologist who earned his PhD in 1970. He is a Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council has acquired extensive experience in landslide-risk, geomorphology, and sedimentology, publishing around 150 papers and many official reports on landslide mapping and monitoring. Currently retired since 2007, he is CNR Emeritus, analyses the NASA rover images, and publishes several articles on possible microbialites on Mars. Giorgio Bianciardi, Researcher at the University of Siena, Italy, retired in 2022, is a biologist, doctor and PhD. He has published or presented at national and international conferences 365 scientific works and books in the fields of astrobiology, astronomy and pathology, dealing in particular with morphometric analysis and signal analysis with chaotic methods. He has always dedicated himself to the sectors of astronomy, being the director and founder of astronomical observatories in the area where he lives. The minor planet 55418 is named after him.