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Did a migrating Jupiter turn Venus into hell? – Space.com
The giant planet’s long-ago migration likely had big impacts.
Venus has had a somewhat complicated and unfortunate history. Planetary scientists suspect that billions of years ago, Venus was rather more like Earth
: warm, pleasant, and flush with liquid water. But sometime in the past it lost its water and turned into a scorching-hot wasteland.
According to a recent paper, Venus
was doomed from the start, but may have been accelerated in its path to dry-town through the gravitational influence of none other than the great bully of the solar system: Ju…
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