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 Venus, with its boiling-hot surface, doesn’t seem a likely place to find ET. But a new paper argues not only that Venusian clouds could harbor microbial life, but also that the life there could potentially hitch a ride aboard the solar wind to Earth. The possibility for microbial life on Venusian clouds has been suggested […]

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Posted By: ashley | Aug 11th

Courtesy of the folks from Space.com:
On Venus there are no day and night variations of the surface temperature. The heat is globally trapped under a thick carbon-dioxide atmosphere, with pressure 90 times higher than on Earth. Instead, the main temperature variation is due to topography.
Just like on Earth, mountain tops are cooler, whereas the lowlands […]

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Posted By: froosh | Dec 15th