Artist’s representation of how Venus may have appeared with water — NASA

Venus may have been habitable until 700 million years ago

Detailed maps of its surface from over 40 years of space probes indicate the existence of a shallow ocean of water

Faisal Khan
Nov 1 · 3 min read

Despite Mercury being the closest to the Sun, Venus is the hottest planet in our Solar System due to the transformation that changed its atmosphere radically somewhere in the…

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