Is there life on Venus? If there is, it would have to be unlike anything we’ve ever seen! New evidence means the possibility of life there is in question, but it could also mean a few other things.
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Sources:
Main Paper (free to read) – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4
Microbe life cycle (free to read) – https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2020.2244
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05224
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/in-depth/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X1500504X
http://astrobiology.com/2020/09/phosphine-detected-in-the-atmosphere-of-venus—an-indicator-of-possible-life.html
Images:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30357
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Magellan_orbit.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12729
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JCMT_on_Mauna_Kea.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Atacama_Compact_Array.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20190
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13339
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20308
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13640
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728
http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/04/Bepi_before_space
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