We have two suspects here. One we have the sun, and in the other we have massive eruptions on venus that broke the planet. So how do we solve this murder mystery? There's a fleet of missions that is going to unravel the geologic make up of venus to day. Could the earth pull a venus one day? And could earth be turned to this hell? Yes, ye. A cavia. Let's not panic. I mean, of eruptions are like, on millions of years of time scales, in hundreds of thousand, ear millions of years. Nice to have a little bit of lead time before the apocalypse. But it could happen.
Venus is the hottest, scariest planet in the solar system, but billions of years ago it may have been a lot like Earth, complete with an ocean of water. So, what killed Venus? And could Earth be next?
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