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Jun 18, 2009 · Considered a hostile locale for life, Venus has recently revealed secrets that could change everything. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribeAbout Nation...
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Jun 19, 2024 · Watch the full episode here: https://youtube.com/live/c--MBv90MZQThese are organism that don't require oxygen to survive. They could be living on Venus, prod...
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Mar 28, 2024 · Alien life could thrive in Venus' acidic clouds, new study hints. Earth life may have traveled to Venus aboard sky-skimming asteroid. "It doesn't mean that life there will be the same as here. In ...
- The Ingredients For Life
- It’S Unlikely Today …
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- A Truly Alien Explanation
Understanding how life formed on Earth not only helps us understand our own origins, but could also provide insight into the key ingredients needed for life, as we know it, to form. The details around the origins of life on Earth are still shrouded in mystery, with multiple competing scientific theories. But most theories include a common set of en...
The possibility of life as we know it forming on the surface of present-day Venus is incredibly low. An average surface temperature above 400℃ means the surface can’t possibly have liquid water and this heat would also destroy most organic molecules. Venus’s milder upper atmosphere, however, has temperatures low enough for water droplets to form an...
Bearing all this in mind, if atmospheric phosphine is indeed a sign of life on Venus, there are three main explanations for how it could have formed. Life may have formed on the planet’s surface when its conditions were very different from now. Modeling suggests the surface of early Venus was very similar to early Earth, with lakes (or even oceans)...
The third explanation to consider is that a truly alien form of life (life as we don’tknow it) could have formed on Venus’s 400°C (750°F) surface and survives there to this day. Such a foreign life probably wouldn’t be carbon-based, as nearly all complex carbon molecules break down at extreme temperatures. Although carbon-based life produces phosph...
Sep 23, 2020 · Its charge is “to push the envelope to try to understand what kind of life could exist in the very harsh Venus atmosphere and what further evidence for life a mission to Venus could search for ...
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Feb 23, 2021 · If life did arise on Venus, does it still exist? A new Johns Hopkins APL-led study provides a framework for estimating that chance. The Venus Life Equation calculates the probability that life currently exists on the second planet from the Sun by focusing on the likelihood of each of three factors: origination, robustness and continuity.
