New evidence suggests Mars once had ‘vacation-style beaches’
The evidence comes from data collected by China’s Zhurong Mars rover, which landed in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars in 2021. Unlike other rovers traversing the planet, Zhurong arrived with high- and low-frequency radar systems that allow it to conduct ground-penetrating scans of the Martian subsurface.
Scientists have used orbiters and rovers to find dried streams, lakes, and gullies on Mars that hint at its watery past, but ...
Nearly half of Red Planet used to be covered by an ocean surrounded by sweeping shorelines, data from Chinese rover suggest ...
NASA missions over the years have found evidence that water once flowed on the Martian surface billions of years ago ...
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