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was once home to a vast ocean, including tracing some ancient coastline where water may once have lapped, a study said Thursday.
It has been probing the red surface ever since, and some new findings from the mission were revealed in the new study in the journal Information from the rover, as well as satellite data and analysis back on Earth, also suggested that a shoreline was once near the area, according to the study. Bo emphasised that the team does"not claim that our findings definitively prove that there was an ocean on Mars".
Bo acknowledged that wind might have worn down some rocks, but said the impact of meteors hitting Mars can also"excavate underground rock and sediment to the surface from time to time".
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