04: Ganymede Luminescent Osiris Mushrooms

Ganymede, orbiting Jupiter and the largest and most massive of the Solar System's moons generate a tremendous amount of heat within its core, keeping much of its subsurface crust in liquid form. This hostile environment requires high resilience form of exobiology to grow on its surface.

Deep within the underground caves in this extreme hostile environment is the home of the Luminescent Osiris Mushrooms. A silica based fungus which thrive on the volcanic grounds absorbing the heat and emitting it through its gills.

These gills produce microscopic magnetic spores that help the fungus spread across the volcanic ground and surrounding surfaces.

Artwork Date: December 2021

Created using GAN machine learning AI system running on RTX-3090