Rover finds the shoreline of an ancient beach on Mars
If the findings hold up, the buried shorelines tell a compelling story of the last days of oceans on Mars. Based on the team’s paper, that water appears to have lasted tens of millions of years. As it disappeared and the climate dried up, wind-blown regolith covered the shorelines that Zhurong measured.
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Researchers Just Uncovered A 4-Billion-Year-Old Beach Buried On MarsBetween 2021 and 2022, the Chinese rover Zhurong explored Utopia Planitia, a sprawling plain within a large impact crater on ...
Earth may now be home to the most glorious beaches in the solar system , but 3 billion years ago, it may have been Mars that ...
Mars wasn’t always a dry, desolate world—it may have had sunlit beaches and rolling ocean waves, just like Earth. A new study ...
Billions of years ago, Mars had beautiful golden beaches skirting oceans that covered almost half the entire planet.
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