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Sep 18, 2020 21 min

Interview: Life on Venus?

from Star Diary Hosted by BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Could life exist elsewhere in the Solar System? Astronomers have announced the presence of phosphine in the clouds of Venus, which could be evidence of microbial life around the hellish planet. This episode Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder, one of the astronomers behind the discovery, reveals how they did it, and why we need a new mission to explore Venus.

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