Could Life Exist on Venus? Peptides Survive Harsh Acid.
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Knowridge Science ReportCould life exist on Venus? Peptides survive harsh acid.
The planet Venus is arguably the most mischievous planetary body in the solar system. This is because like Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, Venus is shrouded in a thick atmosphere that can’t be viewed with optical telescopes and require radar images to see the surface. Unlike Titan, whose atmosphere looks quite dull, Venus’s swirling and awe-inspiring clouds give observers the impression that its surface is covered in wonderous features. However, t…
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) conducted a study that investigates the viability of life in Venus clouds, revealing that peptides can survive under extreme acidity conditions.
When conditions on the surface of a distant planet turn out to be unfit for living organisms, researchers tend to shift attention to the underground oceans or hidden water reserves, but the Venezuelan clouds offer a fundamentally different perspective: at 50–65 kilometres, the temperature is much milder, and the local air body attracts researchers more than the hot ground. The main difficulty was that the Venezuelan clouds almost... The post In …
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