Scientists have discovered a 3 billion-year-old beach buried on Mars
- Written by Aaron J. Cavosie, Senior lecturer, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
A view of the Utopia Planitia region on Mars which is believed to be the site of an ancient ocean. ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SAIn the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the once-controversial question of whether water ever rippled over the red planet.
Since then, more and more...





