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https://www.space.com/venus-volcano-eruptions-large-igneous-province
Earth may have had a lucky escape from the volcanism that transformed Venus.
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One of the largest volcanoes on Venus is the 2-mile-tall Maat Mons, which has lava flows spilling for hundreds of miles around it.(Image credit: NASA/JPL)
Massive global volcanism that covered 80% of Venus’ surface in lava may have been the deciding factor that transformed Venus from a wet and mild world into the suffocating, sulfuric, hellish planet that it is today.
The surface temperature onVenusis a sweltering 867 degrees Fahrenheit (464 degrees Celsius), hot enough to melt lead, and there’s a crushing pressure of 90 atmospheres underneath the dense clouds of carbon dioxide laced with corroding sulfuric acid. Often decried asEarth‘s “evil twin,”…
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