Evidence mounts for an ocean on early Venus
Second planet from the sun may have been watery millions of years after its birth, simulations suggest
![Venus](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/073117_AY_venus_main_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
NOT ALWAYS HELLISH Venus is completely uninhabitable now. But simulations suggest that early in its history the planet had a liquid ocean.
SSV/MIPL/Magellan Team/NASA