> which show that there's a bunch of dark stuff under the surface that shows when you disturb the surface. Interpreting fresh impact imagery with a fungii story would be "Rocks impacting the surface cause fungii growth" which makes very little sense. Even dust devils strip off the surface enough to show the dark stuff.

there was a link here or on reddit a few days ago studying the link between mushroom growth and the lightning. they claimed just using small electrical charges (1/billion of the power of a lightning) they could get up to %10 more growth