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Venus isn’t habitable — and it could be all Jupiter’s fault – Lebanon Express
Venus was once a planet not too dissimilar to Earth, and if Jupiter hadn’t altered its orbit around the sun, it might have been able to support life, according …
“One of the interesting things about the Venus of today is that its orbit is almost perfectly circular,” added Kane, who led the study.
“With this project, I wanted to explore whether the orbit has always been circular and if not, what are the implications of that?”
Researchers created a model of the solar system to learn how each planet’s orbit affected each other.
A planet’s orbit is measured between zero and one. The closer to zero, the more circular the orbit, whilst an orbit of one which…
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