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Catastrophism v uniformitarianism on Venus
By studying craters on Venus, scientists found that the entire planet's surface is the same age and relatively young. This suggests that all of Venus was resurfaced in the not-too-distant past - it's almost as if the planet turned itself inside out. Scientists around the world worked to develop theories that would explain these findings. Some of these ideas proved to be controversial.
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