Unlucky LIPs may explain Venus’s hostile environment
Huge volcanoes may have wrecked the Venusian climate—and may yet do the same to Earth’s
Venus and Earth are of almost equal size and grew from the same mixture of raw materials, yet while Earth has been wet and temperate for most of the 4.5bn years it has existed, Venus is a bone-dry 450°C pressure cooker.
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