
109: Martian Mysteries: What NASA doesn't want you to know
The Why Files: Operation Podcast
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The Detonation of Nuclear Weapons on Mars
The Curiosity rover arrived on Mars in August 2012 and started analyzing samples from the surface. Chemical analysis revealed that the top layer of Martian soil contains a large amount of xenon 129. There is only one known process that creates this particular isotope of xenon, the detonation of nuclear weapons. For so much xenon to be deposited on the surface, the nuclear weapon would have to be the size of the Empire State Building. Dr. Brandenburg believes that a humanoid civilization lived on Mars and died on Mars.
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