"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 ...

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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 ...

"We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand—a proper, vacation-style beach," said geologist Benjamin Cardenas.

A study using radar data from China's now-dead Zhurong rover finds strong evidence that Mars had a stable ocean in the ancient ... The tool works by sending radio waves underground to measure ...

They also imply that there were rivers that dumped sediment into the ocean that was distributed by waves along the beaches ... which included China's first Mars rover, Zhurong.

lapping waves and gentle breezes - according to new evidence from a Chinese rover. Scientists now believe there was a large ocean on the north side of the planet - and conditions that could have ...

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 ...

Ground-penetrating radar data obtained by China's Zhurong rover has revealed buried beneath the Martian surface evidence of what looks like sandy beaches from the shoreline of a large ocean that ...