Robert sent in a couple of links. Stories in the news. One of them concerns lightning detected on Mars, or electrical discharges – in the Martian atmosphere [thin as it is]. Possibly as a result of solar radiation or incoming streams of electrically charged plasma in the solar wind. The answer is up for grabs and mainstream has its options open. They have expressed surprise – or some of them. See https://phys.org/news/2025-11-electric-discharges-mars.html … Robert, on the other hand, favours Mars as an electrically charged body in space. Global dust storms from out of local dust storms which appear in the northern hemisphere, around perihelion. Mars, he says, behaves like a comet. On Mars the electrical discharges take the form of dust devils and global dust storms rather than cometary tails. He favours an electric universe scenario as outlined at https://thunderbolts.info/wp/ … and various commentators on the subject.
This thinking spills over into his take on https://phys.org/news/2025-11-meteorite-crater-hosts-methane-microbes.html … where we come back down to Earth itself. However, it too has an extraterrestrial dimension. Active microbial methane production has been confirmed in an impact crater. This is the so called Siljan structure as mentioned in a post last week. He recommends having a look at Thomas Gold’s theory of a Deep Heat Biosphere. This might not need an extraterrestrial input.