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Evidence of beaches from ancient Martian ocean detected by Chinese rover

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Radar data obtained by China 's Zhurong rover shows evidence of what look like sandy beaches from the shoreline of a large ocean that may have existed long ago on Mars .

The findings are the latest evidence indicating the existence of this hypothesized ocean, called Deuteronilus , roughly 3.5 to 4 billion years ago .

An ocean of liquid water on the Martian surface, according to scientists, potentially could have harbored living organisms.

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