What Could Have Killed Venus?

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How long ago did venus become habitable in this sense, and how long did it last? There's kind of two leading theories as to what killed venus. Option number one is the sun. If the sun actually gets brighter and hotter too quickly, even though you might have that water just sitting on the surface, just doing its own thing, minding its own business, the sun can just violently boil it off. And er, that is a fate. Thet lots of exe planets, ard presumed to have gone through, lots of planets outside our galaxy.

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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