News

Image of Venus taken by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft. Scientists have found that amino acids may remain stable in the conditions found in Venus's clouds.
The outlook is promising for future long-term monitoring of planets across multiple wavelengths. Infrared imaging data from ...
"The Venus clouds are a whole order of magnitude more dry than the Sahara," said Hallsworth, noting that the Sahara has around 0.25 water activity, while the clouds of Venus come in at just 0.004 ...
Venus is a planet defined by its clouds. The world’s thick, reflective envelope not only whips around the planet at breakneck speeds, but also helps our nearest neighbor shine brighter than any ...
The clouds of Venus are made of droplets, Clements said, but they’re not water droplets. There is water in them but also so much dissolved sulfur dioxide that they become extremely concentrated ...
Life as we know it shouldn’t be able to survive in Venus’s swirling atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. Its clouds are so acidic, in fact, that they don’t even register on the ...
NASA has two Venus missions currently under review. But all of this will take time. It could take years or even decades to prove conclusively whether there is life in the Venusian clouds, Seager said.
A strange, gargantuan wall of acid-filled clouds on our neighboring planet Venus has been spotted by a hobbyist astronomer. This structure, known as the Venus Cloud Discontinuity, is around 5,000 ...
The question of life on Venus, of all places, is intriguing enough that a team of U.S. and Russian scientists working on a proposal for a new mission to the second planet — named Venera-D ...
Venus: The Planet With Battery Acid Clouds. Clip: Season 51 Episode 9 | 3m 27s Video has Closed Captions | CC. This is what it would be like to walk on the surface of Venus. 10/02/2024 ...
Venus’ clouds too dry, acidic for life A new analysis checks the water available in different planets' atmospheres.
The clouds of Venus are made of droplets, Clements said, but they’re not water droplets. There is water in them but also so much dissolved sulfur dioxide that they become extremely concentrated ...