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‘Signs of life’ on Venus might just be ordinary sulfur gas – NBC News
The detection of phosphine on Venus theorized to be from microbes may have been caused instead by sulfur dioxide, which is not a clear sign of life.
The widely-publicized detection of phosphine gas on Venus a possible “biosignature” suggesting the hellish planet could have living microbes in its clouds was probably caused by an entirely different gas which is not a clear sign of life, according to new research.
Studies by a team of American scientists suggest the radio telescope observations thought to reveal phosphine on Venus were instead caused by sulfur dioxide, which gives signals that can be confused for phosphine under certain circumstances.
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