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As rocky planets like Venus and earth form, what leads to a dense steam atmosphere?

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Because Venus has such a dense atmosphere which is some 100 times thicker than the earth's. Evidently, Venus is sufficiently close to the Sun that the little carbon dioxide it had in its early, Earth-like atmosphere caused the surface to warm up and leach out more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

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