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SUMMARY:Tracing horizons of habitability on Venus - Sean Jordan - Institut
 e of Astronomy
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CONTACT:Lucas Measures
DESCRIPTION:Earth's next-door neighbour\, Venus\, shines brilliantly in ou
 r night sky and has represented love and beauty since antiquity. Human exp
 loration of Venus during the space age\, however\, revealed that its surfa
 ce is boiling hot\, its atmosphere is drier than the Atacama desert\, and 
 the whole planet is engulfed in thick clouds of acid. Now\, almost 40 year
 s since our last in-situ visitation of the planet Venus\, humanity is send
 ing a new fleet of probes to constrain its ancient climate history and to 
 discover whether it may host life today. In this talk\, I will trace the p
 ast and future of Venus exploration\, and answer the questions: what does 
 Venus's ancient past mean for the habitability of exoplanets around distan
 t stars? and how could Venus support extraterrestrial life today?
LOCATION: Harker 1\, Department of Earth Sciences\, Downing Street
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