Venus may once have been habitable

    • Moshita Prajapati
    • Publish Date: Nov 14 2016 11:17AM
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    • Updated Date: Nov 14 2016 11:17AM
Venus may once have been habitable
A comparison of Venus and Earth

Don't pack your bags though

The surface of Venus is widely considered as toxic and inhabitable (the surface temperature is hot enough to melt lead and atmosphere is 90 times thicker than earth’s atmosphere, not to mention toxic and suffocating). But that might not have always been the case. A team at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has found in its research that Venus may have had an ocean of liquid water and a surface with habitable temperatures for two billion years of its history. Based on the information collected from the Pioneer mission, Venus’s early ocean theory was put forth with data detailing conditions of a hypothetical early Venus with an atmosphere of a similar density to Earth and a day as long as Venus’s current day, which is 117 Earth day. “In the simulation, Venus’s slow spin exposes its dayside to the Sun for almost two moths at a time,” said researcher Anthony Del Genio. “This warms the surface and produces rain that creates a thick layer of clouds, which acts like an umbrella to shield the surface from much of the solar heating. The result means climate temperatures could have actually been a few degrees cooler than Earth’s today.”

 

That is a scary thought!

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Bhavana Jaison Atomic Energy Central School No 2

Amazing

DIWANSHI SHETIJA BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL (SWASTHYA VHR)

Quite fascinating.

Kashish Verma Bharti Public School Swasthya Vihar

Interesting!

ATUL KUMAR BHARTI SUKRITI WORLD SCHOOL D6098

Venus was like as Earth.It has 200 degrees celsis temperature. Scientist has found that Earth will be Venus in future.Russia has sent many spacecrafts in Venus but they did not stay for many minutes.

sudharshan.ak CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL DEVASANDRA K R P

Nice, thanks for the information

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