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Originally Posted by razark
While asteroids are a good source of ores, we don't know exactly what might be available on Mars. In addition, any resources on Mars have the benefit of not having been ravaged for thousands of years.
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Ravaging of billions (not thousands unless you are a Jesus riding a dinosaur christian.
) of year of ionizing radiation from the sun simply means more exotic elements (the fun stuff at the bottom of the Periodic Table) are likely to form. Exotic is valuable.