Little is known about why Venus became an inhospitable ‘evil twin’ of Earth, while our planet turned into an oasis.
But scientists now have renewed hope they can get to the bottom of it after NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured a stunning visible light image of Venus for the first time.
It reveals the surface’s distinctive features such as continental regions, plains, and plateaus, as well as a luminescent halo of oxygen in the atmosphere that surrounds the planet.
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