The acid clouds surrounding Venus won’t be hostile to a few of life’s key molecules
JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Kevin M. Gill
Amino acids can survive in concentrated sulphuric acid much like that present in Venus’s clouds. This doesn’t make Earth-like life extra seemingly in these clouds, but it surely does open the potential for a sort of life primarily based on sulphuric acid as an alternative of water.
Whether or not Venus’s clouds can harbour life has been hotly argued by scientists in recent times, particularly after phosphine, a molecule produced predominantly by dwelling organisms, was noticed within the planet’s…
