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Venus Might Have Been a Temperate Habitable World if It Wasn’t For Jupiter – ScienceAlert
Venus might not have been the sweltering, inhospitable planet of acidic clouds and desert rock that it is today if it hadn’t been for the interference of Jupite…
Venus might not have been the sweltering, inhospitable planet of acidic clouds and desert rock that it is today if it hadn’t been for the interference of Jupiter, according to new research.
In fact, our neighbouring planet could have turned out to be quite temperate and habitable. The new study proposes that the gravitational pull of Jupiter pushed Venus closer to the Sun, creating a runaway greenhouse effect and vaporising surface oceans.
Scientists used a computer model to track the position…
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