The planet Venus has finally made a historic discovery by scientists, who were completely surprised by what they managed to reveal to humanity after long periods of research. The scientists who looked very carefully at the planet Venus managed to discover the fact that a few billion years ago the planet was affected to a great extent by extremely violent volcanic eruptions that also had an impact on its climate.
The planet Venus is the second closest to the sun at the moment, and this greatly affects its entire existence due to the large amount of solar radiation that constantly hits it. It seems that a few billion years ago, not very long after the formation of what we know today as the planet Venus, its surface was very seriously affected by extremely powerful volcanic eruptions, or at least that's what scientists tell us.
Planet Venus: HISTORIC Discovery, Surprised Researchers
The planet Venus has a multitude of craters on its surface, but scientists say that some of those in the Mars Arabia Terra region are produced by volcanic eruptions of epic proportions. These volcanic eruptions that would have taken place on the planet Venus would have thrown billions of tons of lava and gases into the planet's atmosphere, and from here some extreme climate changes would have come, scientists believing that in the past the planet had an ecosystem similar to that of the Earth.
"At that point I said, 'OK, well there are minerals that are associated with altered volcanic ash that's already been documented, so now we're going to look at how the minerals are distributed to see if they follow the pattern that I have do expect to see from super eruptions. We actually see what was predicted and that was the most exciting moment for me. Each of these eruptions would have had a significant climate impact – perhaps the gas released made the atmosphere thicker or blocked the sun and made the atmosphere cooler."
The planet Venus had these volcanic eruptions of epic proportions about 4 billion years ago, and according to scientists, the volcanoes would have been active for a period of about 500 million years. The craters formed as a result of these eruptions have irregular shapes, in contrast to those from asteroid impacts which have regular shapes, but the minerals thrown out by the explosions have also been discovered thousands of kilometers away from these craters.
The planet Venus is very complex and has a turbulent history, so all the discoveries made by scientists now prove to be extremely important for future explorations.
