"Unfortunately, we of course have no closer oblique aerial color views of the Mars landscape that might reveal more detail. So we have to be get by with the distant mostly straight down satellite views provided.
This image is a M07-03768 satellite view from the MGS MOC data that has a little sharpening work to bring out the smaller detail.
It demonstrates a super dense tree forest top canopy engulfing some gently rolling hills and undulations in the terrain. We are fortunate here that, despite the distant view merging detail; this is a little more mixed variety forest with some of the trees being taller and larger than their neighbors. This creates some unevenness and irregularities in canopy top surface similar to the Earth based images and that helps with identification.
Yes this evidence with its look of conventional trees packed in super high density is on Mars. It should be fairly obvious here that we are not looking at geological terrain but at old growth forest and likely conventional trees by its look engulfing and covering the geological terrain. Further, this site is in the South Polar Region where instrument testing in the past has told us that it gets super freezing cold at –180º F to –225 F. Temperatures like that can crack steel and it is why one does not see trees here on Earth in the Polar Regions. The ice crystals form in organic cell's moisture enlarging and destroying the cells with death following.
So either the above trees are incredibly severe cold adapted or someone is pulling our collective leg about the Mars temperatures. That question might remain unanswered except for the presence of multiple forest surrounded lakes of liquid water as presented in my book just released and that tells the real tale. It tells us that the Mars atmospheric temperature, including in the Polar Regions, is much milder and friendlier to life as we know it than we have been led to believe over these last decades and generations have grown up with a falsehood as an essential part of their educational process.
Should anyone try to avoid responsibility for this miserable extremely cold temperature fallacy by trying to argue that there have been recent warming trends that have changed things since the earliest test results, look again at that above forest. This is not growth just a few decades old. It is very old growth and it likely took centuries to gain this kind of complete domination of this terrain so successfully. This tells us that the Mars environment is not only favorable to this growth; the environment has been stable and consistently favorable for a very long time.
This situation is typical of most of the forest growth on Mars. It is aggressive. A species tends to dominate a given area covering vast expanses. Consequently, when our satellite camera passing overhead takes a picture of the Mars surface in the form of a strip much longer than it is wide, such strips tend to involve only sections of the evidence and rarely beginning or ending boundaries. It's like taking a picture of a mid area section of carpet showing no boundary edges.
This impacts what we would consider normal size evidence (by our Earth standards) negatively visually merging it together and this is made worse by obfuscation treatments furthering this impact. On the other hand, Mars with its lower gravity is a place where living things often get very big and even gigantic. The larger the size of some of the individual objects, the more they resist being obscured by standard obfuscation treatments and so once in a rare while evidence is not sufficiently dealt with by the obfuscation treatments. That is partially the situation with the following Mars forest growth evidence. The book can be ordered online at this LINK via your credit card through PayPal. Thanks to Joseph Skipper"