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| February 8, 2030 | ||||||||||||
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| We got up feeling very excited as we wondered what the mysterious ore would turn out to be. �Where�s the ore?� I asked. Still grumpy, my crewmate arrogantly replied, �It�s in the lab, you dolt.� I nodded sleepily and trotted over to the lab. Would it be a known, but very rare metal? Would it be an element never discovered by previous rover missions? My mind raced as I thought of the numerous possibilities. �Come on!� I cajoled.
�No!� my crewmate argued. �We need to find some more things before examination!� I sighed and acquiesced silently. Dehydration forced to use our water supply that was originally for the trip back to Earth, because we would have died out of severe thirst. Once we drank the water, we felt new energy flow through us. It was time to go explore!
We found several spots in Venus that contained the same element we examined in the lab. After a few more encounters with the arcane substance, my crewmate finally agreed to start looking at the components. �Odd,� my crewmate muttered. �Come here and examine the peculiar properties of this element.� �It doesn�t absorb heat!� I marveled. �Not only that, it changes to a purple hue when under 0 Celsius,� my crewmate grinned. Another strange thing was that the metal did not chip when diamond struck it, but melted when exposed to water. After that, we went volcano hunting. We found many volcanoes, but what interested us were the rocks. All of them were composed of at least some sulfur. Then, we made a theory. There may have been large bodies of water on Venus, but it all evaporated once Venus� atmosphere had the greenhouse effect. Soon it could get to a point where rocks (composed of sulfur) could gradually melt and then convert into gas. This large amount of sulfur would surely pollute the evaporated water in the air, making the greenhouse effect extreme. We realized that this same process was happening to Earth! It was a reasonable theory, but still a little far-fetched. What if there really had never been much water on Venus? Soon we got tired of thinking and we went to bed.
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