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Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.
BEIJING -- A team of Chinese geologists has created a Mars soil simulant that almost replicates Utopia Planitia soil, a ...
Watch footage of China's Zhurong rover moving on the Martian surface. It was captured by a camera the rover deployed on Mars.
China’s ambitions have surged since May 2021, when its Tianwen-1 mission made it the second nation after the U.S. to land on Mars. The Zhurong rover explored Utopia Planitia, paving the way for bigger ...
China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...
The flowing celestial robes in Dunhuang murals, featuring flying goddesses, and the legendary attempt by Wan Hu to reach ...
The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin Questions in the natural sciences. Recently, China officially launched its Mars ...
Data from Zhurong provide an unprecedented look into rocks buried near a proposed shoreline billions of years old. The researchers claim to have found beach deposits from an ancient Martian ocean.
One such formation, Utopia Planitia, a large plain in Mars’s northern hemisphere, was selected as the landing site for Zhurong, which touched down on Mars on May 15, 2021.
Analyzing data collected by China's Zhurong Mars Rover, an international team of researchers have detected buried evidence of beaches beneath a plain on the Red Planet.
China's Zhurong rover offers new evidence from ground-penetrating radar that Mars once had a large stable ocean in the northern lowlands.