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Phosphine In Venus’ Atmosphere Points To Volcanics, Not Life
14/07/2021 03:17 PM | Click to read full article
Dreams of life in Venus’ atmosphere seem to have been squelched definitively with yesterday’s announcement that last year’s detection of phosphine high in the planet’s dense clouds was more likely the result of explosive vulcanism than some sort of microbial life.
The news comes with the publication of a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
