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Photo released on June 11, 2021 by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) shows a selfie of China's first Mars rover Zhurong with the landing platform.The study published on Thursday in the journal Science Advances revealed that a large impact basin on Mars contained liquid water during the Amazonian epoch, the planet's most recent geologic epoch.
Around 700 million years ago, water was present on the now cold and dry planet, the study said, citing evidence. This means it was there till the current Amazonian period. Till now, scientists used to believe water was present on Mars around 3 billion years ago during the planet’s Hesperian period. Later, it lost much of its water
China's Zhurong rover has found that Mars may have had liquid water hundreds of millions of years more recently than previously thought. It has long been believed that Mars was wet around 3 billion years ago, during the planet's Hesperian period, then lost much of its water. But the new study, published in the journal Science Advances, presents evidence of water activity from just 700 million years ago, well into the current Amazonian period, Space.com reported. The Amazonian period was previously thought to be dry. Scientists from the National Space Science Center (NSSC) under...
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Chinese researchers have detected water-bearing minerals on Mars by analyzing data collected by the country’s Zhurong rover that is currently trekking on the surface on the Red Planet.