China's Mars rover reveals new features on the red planet
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- 09 Mar 2022
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Initial data collected by China's Mars rover Zhurong suggests the landscape it has traveled has been subject to long periods of weathering in the past by wind and even water, reported New Scientist on Monday.
The study was published by Liang Ding from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China and his colleagues, in the academic journal Nature Geoscience.
Zhurong has landed at Utopia Planitia on Mars which is a large plain in the northern lowlands of the planet last May. The rover has collected soil and dust samples as well as captured images to study the geological structure and surface composition on the red planet. Read More...
