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Venus became that way because of its' oceans and no counterbalancing moon.

• shrimp_emoji 4y ago
  Nope; it's because it's closer to the Sun (whose luminosity is increasing over time, btw, so Venus got cooked more and more until it got into a critical greenhouse effect). Venus is also strange for having a retrograde (and very slow) rotation relative to other Solar System planets due to a mix of being close enough to be tidally locked to the Sun and its (now extremely thick) atmosphere creating strong thermal tides that affect its rotation. It used to be thought (and I thought this) that its retrograde rotation was due to impacts in its early history. But, in any case, having moons is unrelated.
  • moloch-hai 4y ago
    It lost (most of) its rotation because it has no moon, nothing to counter solar tides. Because it lost its rotation, it lost its magnetic field. Because it lost its magnetic field, it lost its hydrogen. Mars lost its hydrogen the same way, because its core froze enough to kill its magnetic field. There is more than one way to go. Venus is in a bad way.
  • TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
    Yup. Oceans. Ask Anton Petrov. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_fiFzTceZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_fiFzTceZc