Between 2021 and 2022, the Chinese rover Zhurong explored Utopia Planitia, a sprawling plain within a large impact crater on Mars. The rover used ground penetrating radar to investigate a series of ...

In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the once-controversial question of whether water ever rippled over the red planet.

Scientists now believe there was a large ocean on the north ... said: “We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand — a proper, vacation-style beach.” He added: “Shorelines ...

The findings are the latest evidence indicating the existence of this hypothesized ocean ... found structures, which were entombed over time under material deposited by dust storms, meteorite ...