Watery ancient Venus could have been rendered uninhabitable by its own oceans

Modern-day Venus is a hellish place, but that wasn't always the case. Studies have shown that billions of years ago it might have been just as habitable as Earth. So what happened? New research has found that if ancient Venus was home to vast oceans, tidal drags may have slowed down the rotation of the planet and let it bake into the lifeless world we know today.

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Category: Space

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• Astronomy
• NASA
• Ocean
• Planet
• University of Washington
• Venus
• Water

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2M4D6Zu