Scientists find gas linked to life in atmosphere of Venus – The Guardian

Traces of a pungent gas that waft through the clouds of Venus may be emanations from aerial organisms microbial life, but not as we know it.
Astronomers detected phosphine 30 miles up in the planets atmosphere and have failed to identify a process other than life that could account for its presence.
The discovery raises the possibility that life gained a foothold on Earths inner neighbour and remnants clung on or floated on, at least as Venus suffered runaway global warming that made the plane…

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