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Oct 6, 2020 · Life on Venus is still a long shot. But there's reason to take the idea seriously. On Sept. 14, a team of scientists made a bombshell announcement in the journal Nature Astronomy: Using telescopes ...
Oct 2, 2020 · We may have another hint that there really is phosphine – a gas that may be a sign of life – in the clouds of Venus, and it comes from old data collected by a spacecraft that visited the ...
Jul 29, 2024 · However, if there is life on Venus producing ammonia, we do have an idea why it might be wanting to breathe ammonia.” NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this view of Venus in the 1970s ...
Because Venus is completely covered in clouds, human knowledge of surface conditions was largely speculative until the space probe era. Until the mid-20th century, the surface environment of Venus was believed to be similar to Earth, hence it was widely believed that Venus could harbor life.
Oct 28, 2023 · It's possible that once —billions of years ago— Venus had life on it. The rocky planet is a "scorching wasteland" according to scientists, but long ago a shift in its tectonic plates could ...
Carl Sagan discussing Venus in 1963 This image from the 1963 NASA film The Clouds of Venus shows a 29-year-old Carl Sagan discussing the prospect of life on Venus. Image: NASA Subsequent Soviet, U.S., and European missions in the 1960s and ‘70s only made the prospect of life worse, confirming it was the surface, not the atmosphere, that was oppressive.
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Oct 20, 2021 · 6. How much water did Venus have? Liquid water is essential for life. We cannot assess Venus’ past habitability without knowing how much water Venus may have had – and when and how it lost that water. Scientists can use the bulk chemical composition of rocks found on Venus to unravel the mystery of water on the planet.
