A 2025 model links Venus’s 6,800-kilometre canali to rare, low-viscosity carbonatite lava and a potentially late addition of much of the planet’s carbon dioxide atmosphere. The post Venus may have remained temperate and potentially habitable for most of its history—then water-thin carbonatite lava carved vast channels, including one stretching 6,800 kilometres, and released enough CO2 to help transform the planet into the inferno we see today appeared first on Space Daily .
Venus may have remained temperate and potentially habitable for most of its history—then water-thin carbonatite lava carved vast channels, including one stretching 6,800 kilometres, and released enough CO2 to help transform the planet into the inferno we see today
