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October 3rd, 2025
Enigmatic Venus – Cloudy with a scattering of life?
Image credit: NASA
The planet Venus is a hellish, hot under the collar world.
Not only is this enigmatic globe holding tight its secrets under thick clouds saturated with sulfuric acid, it is upwelling a heavenly question mark: Could it be a haven for high-altitude life?
Perhaps Venus is a cozy, comfy home for microbes? That prospect is fostering the first-ever private mission to Venus, an endeavor outfitted with science gear to search for signs of life in its clouds by detecting organic chemistry.
Called the Rocket Lab Mission to Venus, Sara Seager, professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge is a key scientist for a small, nose cone-like probe crafted to sample the Venusian atmosphere with an AutoFluorescence Nephelometer.
For details on the mission, go to my new Nautilus story – “Seeking Signs of Life on Venus- The first private mission to the morning star will sample for traces of biological activity in the planet’s clouds” – at:
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