Researchers who have observed the planet using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii, believe there is evidence to suggest alien life may exist on Venus.
Two years later, they followed up these observations with a survey conducted by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile.
After the discovery of phosphine traces in Venus' atmosphere, the scientists tried to work out how the gas could have been produced using computer modeling techniques. They investigated various natural processes, including micrometeorites, volcanoes, lightning, sunlight, minerals being blown upwards from the surface and chemical processes occurring in the clouds.
While much of Venus appears to be totally inhospitable to life with its scorching hot surface temperatures and its atmosphere filled with thick clouds of sulfuric acid, there are parts of the atmosphere—between 30-40 miles above the surface—where conditions are temperate, and both sunlight and water are present, though the clouds are still highly acidic there.
The latest findings have been greeted with excitement by other scientists in the field of astronomy, although many also note that the research is not conclusive proof that life exists on Venus. According to Duffy, detecting life on Venus will require confirmation in a lab, which could mean that"NASA's long-dreamed of mission to Venus" with gigantic balloons floating in the upper atmosphere may finally come to fruition.
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