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"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 ...

Mars wasn’t always a dry, desolate world—it may have had sunlit beaches and rolling ocean waves, just like Earth. A new study ...

Mars had a vast ocean with ancient beaches, suggests data from China's Zhurong rover. (artist's ... [+] Impression of a rover on the surface of Mars). Mars was once home to a vast ocean ...

An international team of scientists used data from China's Zhurong Mars rover to unearth hidden layers of rock underneath the planet’s surface that strongly suggest the presence of an ancient ...

However, even though dust covers everything on Mars, it’s difficult to study and presents an enigma, said Briony Horgan, co-investigator on the Perseverance rover mission and professor of ...

Analyzing data collected by China's Zhurong Mars Rover, an international team of researchers have detected buried evidence of beaches beneath a plain on the Red Planet. The discovery, they say ...

Mars may not seem like a prime holiday spot with ... after they analysed below-ground imaging data from China’s Zhurong rover. “Zhurong was sent to southern Utopia Planitia near locations ...

Anthropologists Call for Tracking and Preservation of Human Artifacts on Mars Dec. 16, 2024 — Anthropologists argue physical artifacts of human exploration ... NASA's Curiosity rover, currently ...

PRIME-1’s TRIDENT drill will excavate a small pile’s worth of lunar soil, as shown in this animation ... s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), a mission to search for ...

Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until ... After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on ...