"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

which may have distorted or obscured evidence of the ancient ocean's surface. China's Mars rover Zhurong successfully landed in southern Utopia Planitia on Mars in May 2021. It had traveled 1,921 ...

China’s Zhurong rover found underground beach-like deposits, strengthening the case for a Mars ocean 4 billion years ago. If Mars had beaches, it means large, ice-free oceans once existed ...

China's Zhurong rover, which landed on Mars in 2021, has found new geological evidence suggesting that Mars might have once hosted a vast ocean. The study, published in Nature, strengthens the ...

Data from China's Zhurong rover recently revealed ... Scientists had speculated Utopia Basin might once have held an ancient ocean, and they thought the escarpment overlooking Zhurong's route ...