By studying the detection data of China's first Mars rover, Zhurong, Chinese geologists have found that the Martian surface had still exhibited significant aqueous activity approximately 750 million years ago.

This discovery shows that water existed on Mars several hundred million years longer than previously thought.

The study, conducted by a research team from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and published in the National Science Review, provides new evidence useful for a better understanding of Martian climatic evolution, geological processes and potential habitability.