The acid clouds surrounding Venus may not 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 discovered in Venus’s clouds. This doesn’t make Earth-like life extra doubtless in these clouds, nevertheless it does open the opportunity of a type of life based mostly on sulphuric acid as an alternative of water.
Whether Venus’s clouds can harbour life has been hotly argued by scientists in current years, particularly after phosphine, a molecule produced predominantly by residing organisms, was noticed in the planet’s…