Posted on 09/15/2020 5:30:09 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Could there be life floating in the atmosphere of Venus? Although Earth's planetary neighbor has a surface considered too extreme for any known lifeform, Venus' upper atmosphere may be sufficiently mild for tiny airborne microbes. This usually disfavored prospect took an unexpected upturn yesterday with the announcement of the discovery of Venusian phosphine. The chemical phosphine (PH3) is a considered a biomarker because it seems so hard to create from routine chemical processes thought to occur on or around a rocky world such as Venus -- but it is known to be created by microbial life on Earth. The featured image of Venus and its thick clouds was taken in two bands of ultraviolet light by the Venus-orbing Akatsuki, a Japanese robotic satellite that has been orbiting the cloud-shrouded world since 2015. The phosphine finding, if confirmed, may set off renewed interest in searching for other indications of life floating high in the atmosphere of our Solar System's second planet out from the Sun.
(Excerpt) Read more at apod.nasa.gov ...
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Pinging the APOD list.
Dang, that is nasty stuff. All this time I thought Venus was a giant emerald ocean with copper-colored mats of floating seaweed and a nubile goddess or two.
People usually don’t see nubile goddesses. Usually it is a cheeseburger.
Just one nubile goddess, but nubile is probably not the right word.
I prefer my goddesses to be buxom.
Just like in C.S Lewis’ “Perelandra” Great read. Adam and Eve before the Fall.
Cold be Earth microbes on Venus..............
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