Space Daily September 05, 2026 • 08:30

Venus may have remained temperate and potentially habitable for most of its history—then water-thin carbonatite lava carved vast channels, including one stretching 6,800 kilometres, and released enough CO₂ to help transform the planet into the inferno we - Space Daily

Venus may have remained temperate and potentially habitable for most of its history—then water-thin carbonatite lava carved vast channels, including one stretching 6,800 kilometres, and released enough CO₂ to help transform the planet into the inferno we - Space Daily

A 2025 model links Venus’s 6,800-kilometre canali to rare, low-viscosity carbonatite lava and a potentially late addition of much of the planet’s carbon dioxide atmosphere.

Venus carries what look, at first glance, like river systems across its volcanic plains. They meander, divide around islands and sometimes preserve abandoned bends. One of them, Baltis Vallis, runs f… [+13495 chars]

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