translated from Spanish: Venus is now the hottest planet in the Solar system

Previous research considers that the situation in which Venus is now not always the case. Billions of years ago, the planet had a much cooler atmosphere and large oceans of liquid water on its surface, revealing that Venus could be habitable as well as the Earth. However, Venus is currently not very friendly because it has an atmosphere Suffocating compound in more than 96 percent carbon dioxide, compared to 0.04 percent of the earth. Temperatures average 462 degrees Celsius, supplemented by dense clouds of sulfuric acid, which causes the rocky surface of this planet to be completely sterile. Why this change in temperature?

It is partly due to the fact that the planet turns extremely slow, a Venusian day lasts up to 243 Earth days, or about two-thirds of a terrestrial year. That means that any given point on the surface is exposed to constant sunlight for months.
It is presumed that Venus was not always so inhospitable. NASA’s missions to the planet have revealed clues that, as well as Mars, Venus could have been the home of liquid water oceans billions of years ago. According to the results of the investigation, which caused Venus to become the hottest planet in the Solar system, it was the ocean itself.



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