One of the things considered in the paper is that the reaction may be temporary and is triggered by the research itself: Assuming the ‘geo-battery’ is partly r

One of the things considered in the paper is that the reaction may be temporary and is triggered by the research itself: Assuming the ‘geo-battery’ is partly responsible for the DOP observed, the initial high DOP rate may have been related to the ‘bow-wave’ of the lander removing sediments from the surface of the nodules and exposing electrochemically active sites on the nodules