"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 ...

China’s Zhurong rover and its ground-penetrating ... missions to spy features that suggested the presence of an ancient ocean on Mars. Utopia Planitia dates to the Hesperian Period, or 3.7 ...

The idea of an ancient Martian ocean has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, groundbreaking research based on radar scans ...

China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Ground-penetrating radar data obtained by China's Zhurong rover has revealed buried beneath the Martian surface evidence of what look like sandy beaches from the ...

Analyzing data collected by China's Zhurong ... how far Mars' ancient beaches might have stretched in total—but the present evidence suggests they grew out into the ocean basin for at least ...

A study using radar data from China's now-dead Zhurong rover finds strong evidence that Mars had a stable ocean in the ancient past. Credit: Victor Habbick Visions / Science Photo Library / Getty ...

The blue areas show the depth of the ocean filled to the shoreline level of the ancient, now-gone sea ... which included China's first Mars rover, Zhurong. Images taken by the Viking spacecraft ...

China's Zhurong Mars rover, which has been exploring the planet's arid surface since May 2021, has made a fascinating discovery: ancient ... could have been an ocean and to see what we think ...

Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago, according to new research. China’s Zhurong rover and its ground-penetrating radar detected the ...

Yet, the deposits don't resemble ancient ... included China's first Mars rover, Zhurong. Images taken by the Viking spacecraft in the 1970s first led to speculation that an ocean once existed ...