# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BJKzgYjBA4Q
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15346573-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/c193471e88.jpg
- **Posted:** 2016-08-16T12:01:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

Did you know? Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient Venus from strong sunlight and made the planet habitable for as many as 2 billion years. Since Venus gets a lot of sunlight, eventually its ocean (if it had one) evaporated, and finally the planet’s atmosphere became the very thick, carbon-dioxide based one it is today. Credit: NASA #venus #habitableplanets #nasa #solarsystem #water

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venus, nasa, habitableplanets, water, solarsystem

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