From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

Perseverance is pushing the limits of Martian science by using its SHERLOC instrument to detect organic compounds, but harsh ...

The idea of an ancient Martian ocean has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, groundbreaking research based on radar scans ...

An international team of scientists, including Penn State researchers, used data from the Zhurong Mars rover to identify hidden ... penetrating radar gives us a view of the subsurface of the ...

The evidence comes from data collected by China’s Zhurong Mars rover, which landed in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars in 2021. Unlike other rovers traversing the planet, Zhurong arrived with ...

On the young side of the timescale ... From this view, Mars appears to have cooled down and dried up by Hesperian time. However, the Zhurong rover findings of coastal deposits formed in an ...

MARS once looked like a tropical ... 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 ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

An international team of scientists, including Penn State researchers, used data from the Zhurong Mars rover to identify hidden ... penetrating radar gives us a view of the subsurface of the ...

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 ...