Venus wasn’t always hot and uninhabitable. Scientists think the second planet from the sun could have had as much water as Earth billions of years ago, and may have even supported life if any of that water was in liquid form. But researchers have a new theory as to how our neighbor in the solar system lost nearly all of its water and why it may have happened far faster than initially thought. The Conversation has more on the study.
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#eng - Marble statue of Aphrodite, Roman, Imperial period, 1st or 2nd century A.D. Copy of Greek statue of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C., #ita - statua di marmo rappresentante Venere, II - I sec.a.C., copia romana di un originale greco.
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🦁🐍 March 29th is one of the ancient festivals of #Ishtar/#Inanna, goddess of fertility, love, war and righteous vengeance. She rules the planet #Venus. She is often accompanied by lions and serpents. You want her on your side 4SURE! 🦁🐍
Today, the 1st March 1966, Venera 3, a Soviet Union space probe became the first spacecraft humankind sent that landed on another planet's surface. It crash landed on Venus.
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ROBERT FRIPP & TOYAH Perform SHOCKING BLUE Hit "Venus" In New Sunday Lunch Video
In the clip below, King Crimson founder Robert Fripp and his wife, Toyah Willcox, share a new cover of the Shocking Blue hit, "Venus", for Sunday Lunch. Check out more Sunday Lunch selections below. "Basket Case" "Give In To Me" "Lick It Up"
Thanks to a poorly chosen font and some good natured fun, the The International Astronomical Union has officially named Venus' quasi-moon 2002VE as 'Zoozve'.
Conjunction of a crescent moon and the planet Venus on a lightly overcast night on 12/28/2019 as seen through the second floor window of an officer's quarter's ruin at Fort Churchill, Nevada State Park. (This shot is as it was, however, it is a focus stack of two images.)
#PPOD: Venus's surface as seen by Venera-14, a Soviet space mission launched in 1981. The lander touched down on 5 March 1982 and survived about an hour on the surface, nearly double the planned life. With a temperature of 465 °C and a pressure 94 times as strong as that of Earth, our "twin" planet is not at all hospitable to humans or machines. Credit: Roscosmos; Image processing: Ted Stryk
New study suggests some forms of life could exist in Venus's sulfuric acid clouds.
Phys.org reports: "Prior research has suggested that if there is any kind of life form living on Venus, it would likely not be on the surface (it is far too hot) but in the clouds, where temperatures are closer to those found on Earth."