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Venus May Have Swallowed Its Own Moon | Science News
Venus might have once had a moon — and it likely swallowed it whole. New simulations show that Venus’s slow rotation could have pulled any moon inward, causing it to crash into the planet. Unlike Earth’s moon drifting away, Venus’s gravity and sluggish spin would have doomed any lunar companion, regardless of size. This wild twist explains why Venus, Earth’s twin in size and mass, is moonless today — and hints that losing a moon could have reshaped its geology and climate over billions of years. While proof is buried deep beneath Venus’s surface, this research reshapes how we think about…
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