As if things didn’t seem apocalyptic enough already, scientists reported that a “horned” comet three times bigger than Mount Everest exploded and is hurtling toward Earth.
When the Betelgeuse brouhaha broke a couple of yrs ago I began taking particular interest in the star, it is possible it could have dimmed by about half of one magnitude for a while, however months ago before the Sun rendered it invisible it seemed ok to me, while there were no extra brightenings the whole time that I witnessed. This comment was redacted from YouTube.
But how could that be, Mars has insufficient atmospheric pressure to allow liquid water to exist .. it must be something else hydrocarbon - oil - comes to mind. NASA Link.