Venus' mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust

TBH THIS ONE IS WILD AND LIKE I SAID EVERYBODY THOUGHT THE HAZE ON VENUS WAS VOLCANIC ASH BECAUSE IT HAS TONS OF VOLCANOES BUT RESEARCHERS AT TOHOKU UNIVERSITY IN JAPAN JUST DROPPED A STUDY IN NATURE ASTRONOMY SHOWING IT IS ACTUALLY METEORITE DUST, WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE SHOOTING STARS BURN UP IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND LEAVE COSMIC PARTICLES AND THEN SULFURIC ACID CONDENSES ON THEM JUST LIKE WATER CONDENSES ON DUST TO MAKE CLOUDS ON EARTH, EXCEPT INSTEAD OF RAIN IT IS ACID CONDENSING ON SPACE ROCKS, AND THE TEAM TESTED SURFACE DUST AND VOLCANOES IN A MICROPHYSICAL SIMULATION AND RULED THEM COMPLETELY OUT BECAUSE THEY CANNOT INTERACT WITH THE SULFUR PROPERLY SO THE CLOUDS ARE LITERALLY CLUSTERS OF BURNED-UP METEORITES FLOATING IN ACID. OK I AM GETTING ANOTHER ROUND, THINK ABOUT IT.

THIS ONE MADE ME PUT MY PHONE DOWN BECAUSE SOME RESEARCHER NAMED HIROKI KARYU OVER AT TOHOKU UNIVERSITY IN SENDAI WAS SITTING THERE MODELING MICROSCOPIC CLOUD DROPLETS ON A COMPUTER AND HE FIGURED OUT THE ENTIRE MYSTERY OF VENUS, WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE EVERYONE SWORE THE MASSIVE LOWER HAZE WAS ASH FROM ALL THOSE VENUSIAN VOLCANOES DISCOVERED BACK BY THE MAGELLAN SPACECRAFT, BUT HIS SIMULATION PROVED VOLCANIC ASH AND SURFACE DUST CANNOT INTERACT PROPERLY WITH SULFUR AT ALL, AND INSTEAD IT IS ACTUALLY METEORITES BURNING UP FROM FRICTION AS THEY PLUMMET THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE, LEAVING BEHIND TRAILS OF COSMIC DUST PARTICLES THAT CLUSTER TOGETHER AND LET DROPLETS OF SULFURIC ACID CONDENSE RIGHT ONTO THEM TO FORM THE CLOUDS, SO THE ENTIRE PLANET IS BLANKETED IN ACID-SOAKED SHOOTING STAR DUST. RIGHT I AM GOING TO THE SMOKING AREA, COME.

A study in Nature Astronomy found that Venus' lower atmospheric haze is formed by sulfuric acid condensing around cosmic dust from meteorites rather than volcanic ash.

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