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![The planet Venus is dry thanks to water loss to space as atomic hydrogen. In the dominant loss process, an HCO+ ion recombines with an electron, producing speedy hydrogen atoms (orange) that use CO molecules (blue) as a launchpad to escape.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/06/venus.jpg?w=800)
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