How Venus Came to Its Present Form May Have Been Discovered

Once upon a time the planet Venus conditions very similar to Earth’s It is believed to have. The events in the past of the planet, also known as the Dawn star, are of great importance both for understanding the future of our own planet and for the search for life outside Earth.

Scientists on this subject to an important question They may have managed to answer: What happened to the water on Venus? Solving this mystery is considered one of the first steps to unraveling how the hell-like structure of the planet we know today emerged.

Where did Venus’ water go?

GEL (Global Equal Layer) A calculation called reveals the depth of the ocean layer that will emerge when the planet’s water spreads to the surface. This value for our planet 3 kilometers while on Venus to 3 centimeters has fallen. Where the water went on Venus, which was formed from more or less the same materials and in the same way as the Earth, was a mystery, at least an enigma. The models developed were not sufficient to explain this situation.

from the University of Colorado Boulder Planetary Scientist Michael Chaffin and his team also revealed the possible reason for this situation when they examined Venus. Since the hydrogen on the planet escaped into space in a series of events called dissociative recombination, in which parts are constantly separated and reassembled, it was not possible to form much water on the planet.

Traces of this process can be found in the planet’s atmosphere. of HCO+ is expected to prove. This structure has not been found on Venus so far, but according to researchers, the reason for this is that this molecule has not been searched before.

The research was published in Nature.