Several established planet-hunting teams have used various radial velocity or star transit methods in their searches around these two bright stars. The impenetrable Venusian cloud cover gave science fiction writers free rein to speculate on conditions at its surface all the more so when early observations showed that not only was it similar in size to Earth, it possessed a substantial atmosphere. It has sufficient mass to assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape. ![]() Some scientists have speculated that thermoacidophilic extremophile microorganisms might exist in the cooler, acidic upper layers of the Venusian atmosphere). ![]() The southern continent is called Aphrodite Terra, after the Greek goddess of love, and is the larger of the two highland regions at roughly the size of South America.
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