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Ancient ocean in Mars
November 12 , 2024
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- Recent findings from China’s Zhurong rover suggest that Mars once hosted an ocean.
- The sediment channels, mud volcanoes, and troughs, point to the presence of a large body of water in the past.
- This discovery supports the theory that Mars, once a potentially habitable planet with a warm atmosphere.
- They estimate that Utopia Planitia flooded around 3.68 billion years ago.
- The ocean seems to have vanished by around 3.42 billion years ago.
- Mars formed around 4.5 billion years ago, like the other planets in our solar system.
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