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Earth's hotter twin

Although the climate on Venus is very different from that on Earth, many features of the two planets' atmospheric circulations and their lightning regimes are more similar than we thought.

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  1. Svedhem, H., Titov, D. V., Taylor, F. W. & Witasse, O. Venus as a more Earth-like planet. Nature 450, 629–632 (2007).

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Langenberg, H. Earth's hotter twin. Nature Geosci (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo.2007.59

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