ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “Is there life on Venus? Here’s what the discovery of phosphine means | ABC News” – below is their description.
Scientists have made a discovery that could uncover potential signs of life in the atmosphere of the planet Venus. The head of NASA called it “the most significant development yet” in the search for life beyond Earth. In a discovery published today in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers found a gas called phosphine in the harshly acidic clouds in Venus’s atmosphere. On Earth, phosphine is made by microbes that thrive without oxygen, or by industrial processes. “You will find it over swamps and things that are decomposing, and also anaerobic life like microbes that are sucked up into the air and into our clouds,” explained Jessica Dempsey, the deputy director of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, which detected the gas. Phosphine is also found in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, but there it is made by chemical processes that aren’t possible on Earth or Venus. #VenusDiscovery #SpaceNews
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