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Mars is too small, and too cold to have a source of primeval heat. Generated on Earth by the radioactivity in the core.

Thus whilst there will be a small quantity of Argon and Calcium generated by the decay of 40K, (~1.3 x 109 years half life) or by other similar radioactive processes, all of the short lived reaction have gone out. And it may have never captured the heavier radioactive elements anyway.

Fusion, such as happens in our Sun, creating Helium from Hydrogen and with the release of energy, never happened on either Earth or Mars, for they are far too small to ever have generated enough gravitational pressure to raise the internal temperature enough to generate fusion reactions.

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