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Scientists may have identified a molecule that played a key role in robbing Venus of its water and turned this planet into the arid, hellish world we see today.is often called"Earth's twin" because both planets are around the same size and density; they are also both rocky planets located in the inner region of the solar system.
"Water is really important for life," Eryn Cangi, co-team leader and a scientist with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics deep. Doing the same for Venus, stripping the remaining water from the atmosphere would create a global layer just 1.2 inches deep. "As an analogy, say I dumped out the water in my water bottle," Cangi said."There would still be a few droplets left."
HCO+ lacks the electrons needed to balance the positive charge of the molecule's protons, and is thus positively charged . "One of the surprising conclusions of this work is that HCO+ should actually be among the most abundant ions in the Venus atmosphere," Chaffin said.
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