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Venus was once more Earth-like, but climate change made it uninhabitable – Phys.org

We can learn a lot about climate change from Venus, our sister planet. Venus currently has a surface temperature of 450℃ (the temperature of an oven’s self-cleaning…

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We can learn a lot about climate change from Venus, our sister planet. Venus currently has a surface temperature of 450 (the temperature of an oven’s self-cleaning cycle) and an atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide (96 percent) with a density 90 times that of Earth’s.
Venus is a very strange place, totally uninhabitable, except perhaps in the clouds some 60 kilometers up where the recent discovery of phosphine may suggest floating microbial life. But the surface is totally inhospitable.
However,…

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