Venus on the Verge
Abstract
Venus’s descent into hellish heat must have been caused by its proximity to the Sun. The story of how Venus lost its water becomes: too much sunlight caused a runaway greenhouse effect, any water evaporated, and the hydrogen escaped into space.
- Publication:
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Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets
- Pub Date:
- June 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012LPICo1675.8081Z