CU-Boulder Professor Larry Esposito, a science team leader on the Venus mission proposal, said the mission would allow scientists to better compare Venus with other planets, including Earth, Mars and Mercury, as well as planets recently discovered orbiting stars in other solar systems. Scientists also are interested in the "runaway global warming" on Venus, Esposito said.
While Venus and Earth were similar at birth, Venus has since turned into "Earth's evil twin" because of its extremely harsh and inhospitable conditions, said Esposito, of CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
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