Venus surprise
Dec 02, 2020
2 minutes
by David Grinspoon
Scientists have reported phosphine, a candidate biosignature gas, on Venus! Exciting, but what does it actually mean?
There are three possible outcomes. Least likely is that it turns out to be genuine evidence for life, but we can’t rule this out and indeed must take it seriously as a viable hypothesis while we investigate further.
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