Once upon a time there was the planet Venus conditions very similar to those of Earth It is believed that this is the case. The past events of the planet, also known as the Dawn Star, are of great importance both for understanding the future of our own planet and for the search for life beyond Earth.

Scientists on this subject to an important question They may have managed to answer: What happened to the water on Venus? Solving this mystery is considered one of the first steps in unraveling how the hell-like structure of the planet we know today came to be.

Where has the water of Venus gone?

GEL (Global Even Layer) A calculation called the Ocean Layer reveals the depth of the ocean layer that will form when the planet’s water spreads to the surface. This value for our planet 3 kilometers while on Venus up to 3 centimeters has fallen. Where the water went on Venus, which was formed from more or less the same materials and in the same way as Earth, was a mystery, at least a mystery. The developed models were not sufficient to explain this situation.

from the University of Colorado Boulder Planetary scientist Michael Chaffin and his team also revealed the possible reason for this situation when they examined Venus. Because the hydrogen on the planet escaped into space in a series of events called dissociative recombination, in which parts continually separate and reassemble, it was not possible to form much water on the planet.

Traces of this process can be found in the planet’s atmosphere. of HCO+ is expected to prove. This structure has not yet been found on Venus, but researchers say the reason for this is that this molecule has not been searched for before.

The research has been published in Nature.