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China's Mars rover Zhurong finds possible shoreline of ancient Red Planet ocean

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China 's Zhurong rover spotted what appears to be an ancient shoreline streaking through Mars ' northern hemisphere.

Scientists say the findings offer fresh support to the hypothesis that an ancient ocean covered the Martian north billions of years ago.

The presence of water, a key ingredient for life as we know it, suggests the Red Planet was once capable of harboring conditions friendly toward microbial life.

Experts say it now makes little sense to spend billions of dollars on an independent robotic sample return mission.

Experts say astronauts can simply bring the samples inside SpaceX's megarocket Starship .

"I see a very dim future right now for MSR as an independent project managed by NASA ," Casey Dreier said.

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