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Evidence for an ancient Martian nuclear reactor ...

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 1:57 pm
by Disembodied
A natural one, that is - like the one in Oklo in Gabon. The hypothesised Martian one may have suffered "explosive disassembly" ...

See "Evidence for a large, natural, paleo-nuclear reactor on Mars", from the 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2011).

Re: Evidence for an ancient Martian nuclear reactor ...

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:08 pm
by CommRLock78
Disembodied wrote:
A natural one, that is - like the one in Oklo in Gabon. The hypothesised Martian one may have suffered "explosive disassembly" ...

See "Evidence for a large, natural, paleo-nuclear reactor on Mars", from the 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2011).
Interesting article - I was unaware of such phenomena. Thanks for the share :).