Utopia Planitia

China’s first Mars Rover reveals (really?!?) how weather and ancient water changed the Surface of the largest impact basin on Mars. China's Zhurong rover landed in the Utopia Planitia, an about 2.000-miles-wide basin located in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars, in May 2021. Since then, the Rover has been studying local geology, chemical composition of rocks, and local weather conditions using its six scientific instruments.
A new study based on data from Zhurong’s first 60 Soles (roughly 62 Earth Days) on the planet reveals how weather and interaction with water altered the rocks around Zhurong's Landing Site over millions of years.