{"id":188938,"date":"2024-05-08T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/venus-may-have-once-hosted-seas-like-earth-but-is-bone-dry-today"},"modified":"2024-05-08T11:33:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:33:21","slug":"venus-may-have-once-hosted-seas-like-earth-but-is-bone-dry-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/venus-may-have-once-hosted-seas-like-earth-but-is-bone-dry-today","title":{"rendered":"Venus May Have Once Hosted Seas Like Earth, But Is Bone Dry Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/venus-may-have-once-hosted-seas-like-earth-but-is-bone-dry-today2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The find, simulated with computer modeling, might explain what happens to liquid water across the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWater is really important for life,\u201d said Eryn Cangi, co-author and a research scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1043398?\" class=\"\" color=\"accent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>. \u201cWe need to understand the conditions that support liquid water in the universe, and that may have produced the very dry state of Venus today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Venus might have hosted seas like Earth. So, what happened? The study\u2019s scientists suspect that Venus underwent a powerful greenhouse event that raised temperatures to 900 degrees Fahrenheit. After this happened, all the planet\u2019s water evaporated, leaving some droplets behind. Even the few drops that were left over might have vanished because of an ion, HCO+, in the planet\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The find, simulated with computer modeling, might explain what happens to liquid water across the universe. \u201cWater is really important for life,\u201d said Eryn Cangi, co-author and a research scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, in a press release. \u201cWe need to understand the conditions that support liquid water in the universe, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}