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Published online 13 January 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.18
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Venus may have had oceans
Granite highlands point to past water - and perhaps life.
The planet Venus, now boiling hot, may have once had oceans. So say researchers who have detected the first geological signs of large amounts of water on the planet's surface.
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