Rediscovering Venus --NASA s New Missions to Discover if Venus was the First Habitable Planet in the Solar System dailygalaxy.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailygalaxy.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“Our models show that there is a real possibility that Venus could have been habitable and radically different from the Venus we see today,” said Michael Way of The Goddard Institute for Space Science about Earth’s ‘twisted sister’ planet. “This opens up all kinds of implications for exoplanets found in what is called the ‘Venus Zone’, which may in fact host liquid water and temperate climates.”
A Temperate Planet Hosting Liquid Water for 2-3 Billion Years
“Our hypothesis is that Venus may have had a stable climate for billions of years. It is possible that the near-global resurfacing event is responsible for its transformation from an Earth-like climate to the hellish hot-house we see today,” said Way.
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NASA has established a new position of senior climate advisor to work with the Biden administration on climate science objectives. The agency said in a Wednesday announcement that the senior climate advisor will advocate for NASA climate investments and work closely with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget.
Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York, will serve in an acting capacity until a permanent appointment is made. Schmidt has been GISS director since 2014, and his main research interest is the use of climate modeling to understand past, present, and future climate change.