What Does Heavy Water Mean?

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Heavy water is one of those scientific terms whicht is exactly what it sounds like. The water we us to this classic htoo, is found commonly everywhere on earth. Heavy water just kind of switches out that hydrogen for something called juterum - a heavier version of hydrogen. If that water existed in liquid form, while the odds that venus was have tobl at some point are not unlikely.

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, how did Venus go to hell? And could Earth be next?

This is the final episode of our four-part series, Lost Worlds, and it originally ran on December 1, 2021.

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