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Joanna Thompson

China's malfunctioning Mars rover may have found evidence of recent water on the Red Planet

A "selfie" of Zhurong and its lander captured by a deployed remote camera.

Mars may have had liquid water on its surface as recently as 400,000 years ago, data from China's Zhurong rover suggests. 

Researchers used three of the craft's instruments to sample sand dunes from Mars' Utopia Planitia, a low-lying region in the northern hemisphere. In the region's' distinct, salty cracks, researchers believe they have found trace evidence of water from much more recently than previously discovered. 

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