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Study sheds light on the mysterious happenings on Venus's surface

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It is well-understood how Earth loses its heat but that is not the case with our neighboring planet, Venus. A new study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, has probed into how Venus cools and found that the thin regions of the planet's uppermost layer could hold the answer. For this investigation, researchers consulted 30-year-old data from NASA's Magellan mission.