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  1. Sep 23, 2019 · It's believed that Venus may have been a temperate planet hosting liquid water for 2 to 3 billion years before a massive resurfacing event about 700 million years ago triggered a runaway ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Aug 10, 2016 · But a few billion years ago a slightly fainter sun might have allowed for a relatively cool Venus, one where liquid water could have pooled in vast oceans that were friendly to life.

  4. 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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  5. The possibility of life on Venus is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to Venus ' proximity and similarities to Earth. To date, no definitive evidence has been found of past or present life there. In the early 1960s, studies conducted via spacecraft demonstrated that the current Venusian environment is extreme compared to Earth's.

  6. Sep 21, 2019 · This means that for 2 to 3 billion years after Venus formed, the planet could have maintained a habitable environment. According to a recent study, that would have been long enough for life to ...

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  8. 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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