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Aug 10, 2016 · Because the answers to both questions are fairly uncertain, the research team also modeled what Venus’s climate would have looked like 2.9 billion years ago if it had an Earth-like topography or ...
Sep 23, 2019 · The hellish planet Venus may have had a perfectly habitable environment for 2 to 3 billion years after the ... Beginning 4.2 billion years ago, ... Venus would have undergone a period of rapid ...
Sep 22, 2019 · At 4.2 billion years ago, soon after its formation, Venus would have completed a period of rapid cooling and its atmosphere would have been dominated by carbon dioxide. If the planet evolved in an Earth-like way over the next 3 billion years, the carbon dioxide would have been drawn down by silicate rocks and locked into the surface.
Aug 11, 2016 · Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet’s ancient climate by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The findings, published this week in the journal Geophysical ...
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Sep 24, 2019 · Venus was downright Earth-like for 2 to 3 billion years and didn’t turn into the violent no-man’s land we know today until 700 million years ago. Venus was a cloudy mystery to astronomers ...
Oct 26, 2023 · That adds fodder to the notion that a few billion years ago, Venus may have been a place where life could have thrived. “That’s a very likely scenario,” Dr. Weller said.
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Sep 24, 2021 · Venus, our vexing sister planet, was likely habitable up to 900 million years after its formation, all without the need for plate tectonics (the global geological recycling of a planet’s carbon).
