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Take two planets of roughly the same mass and composition and place them at similar distances from their parent star. You’d clearly expect them to end up as near twins. However, what the Solar System shows is that it doesn’t take much of a butterfly to drastically alter the fate of worlds.
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Measurements made by Venus Express confirm that atmospheric gravity waves (chapter 10) transfer momentum from the ionosphere to the cloud decks and drive the super-rotating flow.
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Plate tectonics may be essential for the maintenance of a global magnetic field. Dense cold subducting rock might stimulate convection in the planet’s core, which in turn might drive the formation of the magnetic field.
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Stevenson, D.S. (2016). Venus. In: The Exo-Weather Report. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25679-5_5
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