I Could Venus be a 'Soot World'?

[Al_]

TL;DR

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-soot-planets-common-worlds.html
Venus?

I read the phys.org article - https://phys.org/news/2025-09-soot-planets-common-worlds.html and wondered if Venus could be a soot world as it describes. It has no magnetic field, is very dry, an has a lot of carbon in its atmosphere

 

[fresh_42]

We have pictures:

Looks more as if sulfur is the dominant element, not carbon.

 

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TL;DR: https://phys.org/news/2025-09-soot-planets-common-worlds.html
Venus?

I read the phys.org article - https://phys.org/news/2025-09-soot-planets-common-worlds.html and wondered if Venus could be a soot world as it describes. It has no magnetic field, is very dry, an has a lot of carbon in its atmosphere

First time I am hearing of Soot, so I don;t know.

But the article states, if it is truthful, as sometimes they explain it incorrectly,
In fact, according to the paper, there would be three distinct zones of protoplanetary disks, each giving birth to a unique type of planet. The inner zone would only result in rocky works, like Earth and Mars, and it would be too hot for the soot to stay together, making "soot" in this area very unlikely.

 

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The arxiv paper
https://arxiv.org/html/2508.16781v1

 

[AlexB23]

We have pictures:

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Looks more as if sulfur is the dominant element, not carbon.

As a side note, those Venera probes were durable, a testament to human ingenuity, lasting for an hour on the surface of Venus.