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Studies reported on 26 October 2023 suggest Venus, for the first time, may have had plate tectonics during ancient times, and, as a result, may have had a more habitable environment, and possibly one capable of life forms.
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.
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Jul 28, 2023 · Although Venus is a hellscape today, it likely used to have similar conditions to Earth: oceans of liquid water, a mild climate, and other characteristics that may have made it habitable. Past missions to Venus have found evidence of granite-like rocks that would have required the presence of water to form.
Jan 5, 2021 · Venus is a very strange place, totally uninhabitable, except perhaps in the clouds some 60 kilometres up where the recent discovery of phosphine may suggest floating microbial life. But the...
Sep 14, 2020 · If there is indeed life in Venus’ clouds, the researchers believe it to be an aerial form, existing only in Venus’ temperate cloud deck, far above the boiling, volcanic surface. “A long time ago, Venus is thought to have oceans, and was probably habitable like Earth,” Sousa-Silva says.
Earth's nearness to Venus is a matter of perspective. The planet is nearly as big around as Earth. Its diameter at its equator is about 7,521 miles (12,104 kilometers), versus 7,926 miles (12,756 kilometers) for Earth. From Earth, Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after our own Moon.
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Mar 22, 2023 · Though the two planets have similar sizes and distances from the sun, Venus today (left) is hot and inhospitable to life, whereas Earth is watery and temperate. A new study from the University of Chicago analyzes the chances that Venus was once habitable long ago. Images by NASA/JPL.
