What were the previous answers to Gold on mars?

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What were the previous answers to Gold on mars?

Answer 1

None found that I'm aware of.  This is the closest I could find on the Internet:

"To simulate the pressure at Mars' core, Stewart and his team used a synthetic diamond-making machine. Because the way Mars' entrails will freeze all depends on how much sulfur is mixed in with iron and nickel, Stewart crushed samples with different portions of sulfur. "Mars' core is made of anywhere between 10 and 16 percent sulfur," he told SPACE.com. "It doesn't sound like a significant range, but in a planet's core it makes all the difference."

After dissecting the samples with microscopes, Stewart and his colleagues discovered that a low amount of sulfur would cause nickel and iron to solidify in chunks near the outer edge of the core, which would sink to the center. Deemed the "snowing core" model, Stewart thinks it's the most likely scenario.

"On the other hand," Stewart said, "we found a heftier portion of sulfur would cause a fool's-gold-like mineral to form in the center of Mars and grow outward."

Answer 2

Gold wouldn't be worthwhile due to its heavy weight. Finding extremely pure sources of diamond though would maybe be awesome. It would the its value might be greater than the price of going to mars. If that happened, it would help the evolution of space industry, that would be awesome

Answer 3

You mean 'Is there gold on Mars?'

There should be... the theory of stellar evolution says that our solar system formed from the remnants of a supernova billions of years ago. When a star explodes in that manner, some portion of the precursor elements (hydrogen, helium, carbon, iron, etc.) fuse under the massive pressure into heavier elements such as lead, gold, uranium, and so on. As the solar system condensed from that cloud of debris, all of the elements went into forming the new planets. So all of the planets SHOULD have at least SOME gold, it's just easier to find on the rocky ones. If the gassy planets have any kind of core, it should be there too.

But depending on how geologically active the other inner planets are, the gold may be far below the surface, having "stuck" there when everything solidified.

It is likely, but when we arrive there and look for ourselves we won't know for certain.

Answer 4

I didn't know anyone had asked a question about gold on Mars.  Even if it were found, it would be the most expensive piece in history.  The cost of getting to Mars, and one day, the cost of bringing anything back would outweigh the value of gold a billion-fold.