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Life on Venus: Habitable conditions may have lasted 1 billion years
A composite picture of Venus made with information from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter NASA/JPL-Caltech
Venus might have been liveable for near a billion years – far much less time than beforehand thought, however nonetheless lengthy sufficient for all times to evolve.
The planet’s environment is primarily made up of carbon dioxide and its floor is just too sizzling for liquid water. Dennis Höning at VU Amsterdam within the Netherlands and his colleagues modelled how Venus might have developed its environment.
Earlier analysis has indicated that it might have been …