And now it is in question whether Venus ever supported liquid water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Astronomy April 2025 reports "
Was Venus always too hot for water" by John West, page 8.
"A new paper offers a scenario for the early Solar System that could drastially revise our understanding of Venus' climate history, and significantly alters the chance that it was ever habitable . . . . . . . . . the planet has always been too hot to support oceans . . . early Venus was a steam world which could support water vapor but whose surface temperatures, reaching as high as 727 degrees Celsius, never allowed oceans to condense."
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