Data from China’s Zhurong rover points to the possibility that Mars could have been a watery world 400,000 years ago, as the rover finds signs of water activity.
Scientists have for the first time found cracked layers on tiny Martian dunes, which imply the Red Planet was a salt-rich watery world as recently as 400,000 years ago.
The researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing studied data from China’s Zhurong rover. The rover has been exploring Mars’ northern hemisphere si...