Using a mix of China's Zhurong Mars rover's onboard instruments, scientists identified several intriguing water-related features.

A Chinese Mars rover may have found evidence of an ancient ocean on the arid Red Planet. According to a new paper in the ...

With the assistance of China's Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions ...

Data collected by the Zhurong rover and orbiting satellites suggests the existence of an ancient shoreline in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars ...

Data from China's Zhurong rover has revealed what appears to be an ancient shoreline streaking through Mars' northern ...

In 2021, the rover started exploring the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a large plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars hypothesised to have been part of an ancient ocean that once covered the ...

Since Zhurong landed in 2021 — in one of the largest and oldest impact basins on Mars, known as Utopia Planitia — the rover has traveled about 1.24 miles (2 kilometers) studying the geology of ...

China's Zhurong rover touched down in Mars' Utopia Planitia in 2021, a region with a suspected watery past. The rover went inactive in May 2022 due to harsh conditions, but its data remains valuable.

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BEIJING -- China is poised to collect Martian samples and return them to Earth around 2031, with its foremost scientific goal ...

In 2021, China's Zhurong rover landed on a plain in the Martian ... our findings definitively prove that there was an ocean on Mars". That level of certainty will likely require a mission to ...

A model of Chinese Mars rover Zhurong is on display at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, in 2021. — Reuters "We tend to ...