New evidence suggests Mars once had ‘vacation-style beaches’
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 high- and low-frequency radar systems that allow it to conduct ground-penetrating scans of the Martian subsurface.
The first life on Earth formed four billion years ago, as microbes living in pools and seas: what if the same thing happened ...
Scientists have used orbiters and rovers to find dried streams, lakes, and gullies on Mars that hint at its watery past, but ...
Nearly half of Red Planet used to be covered by an ocean surrounded by sweeping shorelines, data from Chinese rover suggest ...
We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...
Mars wasn’t always a dry, desolate world—it may have had sunlit beaches and rolling ocean waves, just like Earth. A new study ...
The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point.
Some Las Vegans have been looking to the sky for hints of alien life for decades, but UNLV geoscience professor Libby ...
The search for extraterrestrial life extends beyond Mars to include moons like Europa and Enceladus, which might harbor life-sustaining conditions. Discoveries such as extremophiles on Earth, capable ...
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