Could Atmosphere of Venus Harbor Life?
Scientists suspect that Venus’s atmosphere might hide extraterrestrial lifeforms, and in the ultimate safari ever, they want to go there and capture them with a flying balloon. Interplanetary travel, extraterrestrial life, and Venusian airships – anyone doing anything other than science is missing out. Venus doesn’t score very highly when we think of life-capable planets – with surface pressures twenty times those of Earth and temperatures which can melt tin and vaporise mercury, it’s not a a good place for organics. In fact, it’s not a good place for Terminators. But go up far enough and you find clouds with Earth-like temperatures, pressures, even chemistry (at least as far as original ingredients go). The fact that Venus boiled off all its oceans and turned them into sulfuric acid doesn’t cancel out the fact there’s water and heat aplenty. In fact, the sulphur might help. High above the Venusian surface the atmosphere is bathed in ultraviolet radiation, aka “That stuff that burns bi
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