"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 ...

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 ...