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So there could be oil on Mars, then? SpaceX’s tea?

• nine_k 4y ago
  Mars seems to lack tectonic activity, the hot core that would drive the synthesis. But maybe it had time to generate some oil (or whatever kind of longer-chain hydrocarbons) when it was still active. Oil won't be very useful on Mars as an ubiquitous fuel (there's little oxygen, mostly needed for artificial biomes and the occasional rocket), but certainly would be useful to produce plastics.
  • hughw 4y ago
    Gold argued that methane is primordial i.e. present sine the formation of the planet. We've observed methane in other planets and moons in the solar system; why would Earth be different?