The rover landed in Utopia Planitia, a plain within the largest known impact basin on Mars, near a series of ridges in the planet’s northern hemisphere. Scientists have long questioned whether ...

flat plain. From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called ...

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. The northern lowlands ...

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. The discovery, they say ...