Venus’s surface may have never been cool enough for oceans or life

By Jonathan O’Callaghan

Cloud operation successful the Venusian atmosphere

JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Kevin M. Gill

Venus mightiness ne'er person had the conditions indispensable for h2o to beryllium connected its surface, meaning the satellite wouldn’t person been habitable arsenic erstwhile thought.

Today, Venus is simply a hellish world, with temperatures connected its aboveground blistery capable to melt lead. Yet the beingness of h2o vapour successful its heavy atmosphere, coupled with aboveground features known arsenic tesserae that look similar past continents, suggest it could erstwhile person supported oceans and possibly beingness billions of years ago. Three caller Venus spacecraft, two from NASA and …