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 ...

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 ...

For example, Martian meteorites record evidence for water ... coastal sediments deposited along the margin of an ocean. Zhurong found a beach. The Noachian period of Martian history, from 4.1 ...

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 ...