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Mercury probe to search for life on Venus during the flyby – News Landed
There will be a lot of focus on BepiColombo as it flies past Venus in October, and again when it returns on August 10th, 2021.
Recently scientists announced the discovery of phosphine gas at Venus with two different telescopes. Phosphine is a smelly, flammable, and noxious gas, and finding it in the Venusian atmosphere could be compelling evidence of life on the planet.
On Earth, phosphine can be made only by life – whether human or microbes. Phosphine gas is still manufactured as an agricultural fumigant and also used in the semiconductor industry. It is also produced naturally by some species of anaerobic bacteria. …
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