Microbial life on VENUS What are the chances?
Arguably, it is the most inhospitable terrestrial body in the Solar System. The surface temperature, around 460°C, is enough to melt tin, zinc and lead. The atmospheric ground pressure is 93 bar - like that beneath 900m of water on Earth, while the atmosphere is choked full of carbon dioxide and clouds that drip sulphuric acid. The sky behaves more like a fluid than a gas, so dense that the winds can easily move small rocks. Welcome to hell - otherwise known as Venus.
Yet despite this most extreme environment, scientists have long speculated about life on Venus, now or in the past
