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Alien Life on Venus Could Be Confirmed by a Spacecraft Flying Past the Planet This Week
4 years, 2 months ago

Alien Life on Venus Could Be Confirmed by a Spacecraft Flying Past the Planet This Week

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Last month, researchers reported that Earth’s neighbouring planet Venus exhibited possible signs of life after astronomers discovered phosphine gas in its atmosphere. Jörn Helbert of the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin, who works on a BepiColombo instrument called the Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer, was excited after the news of phosphine gas in Venus broke …

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Why future missions to Venus will not be as easy as they look
4 years, 2 months ago

Why future missions to Venus will not be as easy as they look

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On 14 September, the entire world was waiting for the Royal Astronomical Society’s impending announcement on Venus. One proposed mission is India’s Shukrayaan-1—an Indian Space Research Organisation orbiter that will aim to study the planet’s surface and atmosphere. According to an official statement, the VERITAS spacecraft, proposed for a 2026 launch, would orbit Venus and peer through the planet’s obscuring …

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Is there life on Venus? Scientists say maybe
4 years, 3 months ago

Is there life on Venus? Scientists say maybe

Live Mint  

An international group of scientists reported the detection of small quantities of a gas in the atmosphere of Venus they believe could be a sign of biological life on the often-overlooked planet. Even I’m skeptical.” The team pointed to two possible explanations for the findings—“some crazy, unknown chemistry, or life on Venus,” said Sara Saeger, an MIT planetary scientist who …

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Astronomers see possible hints of life in Venus's clouds
4 years, 3 months ago

Astronomers see possible hints of life in Venus's clouds

India Today  

Astronomers have found a potential sign of life high in the atmosphere of neighbouring Venus: hints there may be bizarre microbes living in the sulfuric acid-laden clouds of the hothouse planet. They said it doesn't satisfy the "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" standard established by the late Carl Sagan, who speculated about the possibility of life in the clouds of …

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