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Volcanic eruptions altered climate of ancient Venus, says NASA

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Massive volcanic eruptions might have led to climate change on Venus, a new study by NASA has claimed. The volcanic activity that lasted thousands of years could have transformed the "temperate and wet world" into an "acidic hothouse." Venus has an average surface temperature of 462.2 degrees Celsius and an atmosphere 90 times the surface pressure of our planet.