Unlike the rest of the rocky planets in the Solar System, where there are craters thousands of km in diameter, the largest found on Venus do not exceed 300 km. Now scientists know why
About 4 billion years ago, our newborn Solar System was an extremely violent place, with rocks of all sizes (some as large as planets) continually colliding with newly formed worlds. The traces of that intense bombardment, which lasted…
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