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> What is making the rocks luminous, fungus?

It is the rocks themselves. Infrared luminescence is the name of the effect. It is a bit like fluorescence except that the emission occurs in the infrared rather than the visible part of the spectrum.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1052c/report.pdf



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