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Originally Posted by aurora
All terrestrial planets (as well as our Moon) had molten surfaces at one time.
So both Venus and Earth were molten and maintained an atmosphere.
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I don't know, no offense, but sometimes any of you seem to me to take everything only-as-it-is-written, like if you were sufferers of Asperger's syndrome or computers.
Thank you, but I tought it was clear from my post that I was writing about hot planets well after the solar system formation hot phase, with characterics similiar to that of present day Venus, with extremely thick atmospheres and extremely high temperatures due to a runaway greenhouse effect of the superthick, almost entire made of greenhouse gases, atmosphere.
And to specify I mean atmosphere
stable in geological time scales, not like in the case you specified when the planets had solid surfaces after a few thousands years as there was nothing to maintain that extreme heat on the surface.
And afaik in the molten surface stage of evolution of terrestrial planets the primordeal atmospheres were made of primarily primordeal hydrogen and helium from the accretion, and were less dense than even our atmosphere of Earth today, and that only after the surface was solid and temperatures were lower than even these on today's Mercury and Venus (they were in the 100-200 degree Celsius range) a thick "second" atmosphere made of mostly water vapor, CO2 and acidic gases developed from the gases released by extensive young terrestrial planet's volcanic activity, that was around 100x thicker as ours nowadays on Earth (it had pressure around like now on Venus) that quickly rained out to oceans and become around Earth pressure on all three terrestrial worlds except for Mercury where it was quickly blown off from it's weak gravitational field combined with high temperature even without any greenhouse effect and solar wind (however it along with oceans survived from all three worlds only on Earth because sadly the Venus and Mars were unable to maintain the necessary condtions to this time, Mars fell to freezing and thin relic atmosphere and Venus is a hot hellhouse planet now).