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Water on Venus.
So the sun was not as hot several billion years ago in comparison with now. If Venus had water it could lock much of its carbon dioxide in its modern atmosphere in carbonate rocks. Does anyone have any links or any references to the theoretical feasibility or unfeasibility concerning water on Venus many billions of years ago? |
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Water on Venus.
Strange Creature wrote: So the sun was not as hot several billion years ago in comparison with now. If Venus had water it could lock much of its carbon dioxide in its modern atmosphere in carbonate rocks. Does anyone have any links or any references to the theoretical feasibility or unfeasibility concerning water on Venus many billions of years ago? Abstract online via the following DOI link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2006.04.011 (This had earlier been presented at the International Astronautical Federation Congress in 2004, the paper can be found at http://mit.edu/aeroastro/www/people/...enus_IAF04.pdf ) Key fact Isotope separation. Venus in the past had a similar amount of water to Earth. The amount of Deuterium is proportional to loss. The water there is on Venus is distictly "heavier" than on Earth. |
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Water on Venus.
Strange Creature wrote:
So the sun was not as hot several billion years ago in comparison with now. If Venus had water it could lock much of its carbon dioxide in its modern atmosphere in carbonate rocks. Carbon dioxide is not an inherited component of the solar system; there is none on Jupiter, Moon, only a trace on Pluto or Titan. CO2 is formed by the action of oxygen on methane (CH4). Since there is no free interstellar oxygen, all oxygen on Venus was derived from UV splitting of water. http://aramis.obspm.fr/mol/list-mol.html Two molecules of H2O were destroyed for the creation of each molecule of CO2, which means that Venus had at least twice as much water as current CO2. John Curtis |
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