From the temperate world to the acid greenhouse: how massive volcanism may have altered the climate of Venus
An artist’s concept of active volcanoes on Venus, depicting a subduction zone where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior at the topographic trench. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Peter Rubin NASA researchers, which was published earlier this year in The Planetary Science Journal. These “large igneous provinces” in Earth’s history, which caused several mass extinctions on our …