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January 01, 2015

Venus once featured oceans of carbon dioxide
Ithaca, N.Y. (UPI) Jan 01, 2015
Today, the surface of Venus is notoriously hellish - hot, dry and suffocated by a thick lower atmosphere of toxic gases. But Venus was once covered in oceans. The planet has likely always been too hot to host water, but new research suggests it once featured strange oceans of liquid carbon dioxide. Aside from the intolerable, ultra-dense atmosphere - complete with clouds of corrosive sulfuric acid - and high temperatures, Venus is often called Earth's twin. The two planets are very similar i ... read more

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