Venus, popularly knowns as Earth’s “evil twin”, had once seen all the water vanishing from its surface. Now, a new study revealed how gases — oxygen and carbon — are stripped away from the upper layers of the planet’s atmosphere.
According to a study published in Nature Astronomy journal, the Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft performed its second fly-by of Venus on August 10, 2021. The fleeting visit of the ESA/JAXA mission “provided a short-lived observation of its induced magnetosphere”.
What the study revealed?
As per a report in Phys.org, the “detections in a previously unexplored region of Venus’s magnetic environment” show that carbon and oxygen are travelling at such accelarated speeds that “they can escape the planet’s gravitational pull”.
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Published: 13 Apr 2024, 03:02 PM IST