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NASA Detected Phosphine on Venus Decades Ago And Didn’t Realise, Scientists Claim – ScienceAlert
What if scientists had started hunting for life on Venus in 1978?
If life does exist on Venus, NASA may have first detected it back in 1978. But the finding went unnoticed for 42 years.
Life on Venus is still a long shot. But there’s reason to take the idea seriously. On Sept. 14, a team of scientists made a bombshell announcement in the journal Nature Astronomy
: Using telescopes, they’d detected phosphine, a toxic gas long proposed as a possible sign of alien microbial life, in the upper part of the planet’s thick atmosphere. The detection was a landmark i…
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