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Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening
The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the planet's clouds.
“Our latest data has found more evidence of ammonia on Venus, with the potential for it to exist in the habitable parts of the planet’s clouds,” Jane Greaves, an astronomer at the University of Cardiff, said in a statement. At this year’s Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting, researchers from the University of Cardiff presented their plan to search for and map phosphine, ammonia, and other hydrogen-rich gases that might indicate the presence of microbial life on Earth’s twin. But a subsequent project, JCMT–Venus, designed to study the molecular composition of Venus’s atmosphere using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, offered a possible explanation for these disparate findings.
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