Venus Has Almost No Water And A New Study Reveals Why

In Venus’ upper atmosphere, hydrogen atoms, orange, whiz into space, leaving behind carbon monoxide molecules, blue and purple. (Credit: Aurore Simonnet/LASP/CU Boulder)

Planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered how Venus, Earth’s scalding and uninhabitable neighbor, became so dry.

Using computer simulations, the team found that hydrogen atoms in the planet’s atmosphere go whizzing into space through a process known as “dissociative recombination” — causing Venus (which wasn’t always such desert)  to lose roughly twice as much water every day compared to previous estimates.

The results could help to explain what happens to water in a host of planets across the galaxy.

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