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Mars may once have had an ocean with sandy beaches, radar data suggests

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Radar data from China ’s Zhurong rover has revealed evidence of sandy beaches from the shoreline of a large ocean that may have existed long ago on Mars .

Scientists say an ocean of liquid water on the Martian surface could have harboured living organisms, much like the primordial seas of early Earth .

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