Comment on big bro jupiter

AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sparkle@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Venus was habitable for about 3 billion years, until about 700 million years ago… it stopped being habitable because of Jupiter.

  Considering there’s a good chance Jupiter obliterated an entire planet of living organisms… yea it’s not as nice as it seems

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  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But all of its atmosphere leaked out into space

    Wasn’t that because Mars isn’t heavy enough?

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    • sparkle@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, its mass certainly contributed to it losing heat more efficiently. But Mercury (much smaller than Mars) and Ganymede (around the same size as Mars) both have a magnetic field, so there are a lot of other factors at play. Something to do with a change in the chemical composition of Mars’ mantle, I’m not so familiar with it though.

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