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Mars was once a 'vacation-style' beach planet, Chinese rover scans reveal

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The Zhurong rover landed on Mars in 2021 in Utopia Planitia, one of the oldest and largest impact basins on the Red Planet .

By scanning beneath the planet's surface with radar, the rover discovered layered structures filled with foreshore deposits.

These deposits are typically formed from sediments dropped by ocean tides and waves.