China’s Zhurong rover suggests Mars had water more recently than thought
中国“祝融号”火星车发现火星近期水活动迹象
China’s Zhurong rover has found that Mars may have had liquid water hundreds of millions of years more recently than previously thought. It has long been believed that Mars was wet around 3 billion years ago, during the planet’s Hesperian period, then lost much of its water. But the new study, published in the journal Science Advances, presents evidence of water activity from just 700 million years ago, well into the current Amazonian period.
中科院国家空间科学中心空间天气学国家重点实验室刘洋研究员团队利用“祝融号”在火星着陆区探测到含水矿物，发现火星近期水活动迹象，这一行星科学研究的重要成果论文，已在最新一期国际学术期刊《科学·进展》(Science Advances)上发表。
