“Ancient Scar” –Massive Impact Crater Casts Doubt that Venus had Earthlike Continental Plates (Weekend Feature – The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel

A new finding about Venus highlights the unique place that Earth, and its system of global plate tectonics, has among its planetary neighbors. Research by Yale astronomers in 2020 suggested that Venus may have had an Earth-like environment billions of years ago, with vast oceans and a thin atmosphere, hinting that our sister planet may have been the solar systems first habitable planet.
New research by a team of Brown University researchers explored that the possibility that Venus once had Earth-like…

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