But does Venus meet life on the planet?
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Where in the universe is life without this earth? Although human eyes repeatedly ran to Mars to find it, the news came from Venus. |
Scientists have found phosphine gas in
the clouds on this closest planet to Earth, which has made them optimistic
about the existence of life.
There is still no evidence that life
exists; But given the role of bacteria in the production of phosphine gas on
Earth, they are wondering if the possibility of any such organism on Venus
cannot be ruled out.
According to Reuters, the
international research team first saw phosphine gas in the clouds of Venus
through the James Clark Maxwell Telescope located on the island of Hawaii. He then
confirmed it with the ALMA radio telescope from the Atacama Desert in Chile.
"It's also quite unexpected,
astonishing," says astronomer Gen Graves.
The original author of the article,
published in the journal Nature Astronomy, was a researcher at Cardiff
University in the United Kingdom.
Phosphine is a chemical compound
composed of phosphorus and hydrogen. Some bacteria on earth naturally combine
hydrogen with phosphorus to make this gas.
However, phosphine gas can be produced
in the world, not in laboratories or factories, but on Venus, there is no
factory. So how did this phosphine get into the clouds 50 kilometers above the
surface of Venus?
Carla Sos-Silva, a molecular physicist
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, said:
"If we had to explain this discovery, I would say life first.
"It's very important if it's
phosphine, it means there's life behind it. That means we are not alone. ”
Judging by the extent of human
discovery in this vast universe, Earth is still a lonely planet. Only now has
life been found on this planet in the solar system.
However, despite years of research
into whether there is life anywhere else in the universe, no information has
yet been found.
This includes hopeful information from
the nearby planet Venus; The planet that most clearly rises in the Earth's sky
is called Shukatara and Sandhyatara, the name was given to the people of the
earth in remembrance of the ancient Greek goddess of love Venus.
Venus is much closer to the Sun than
Earth, so its temperature is much higher. Scientists do not see the possibility
of an organism surviving at a temperature of 431 degrees Celsius on its
surface.
However, far above the surface of
Venus, where the temperature is 30 degrees Celsius like Earth, they are not
able to blow away the contribution of any microorganism behind this layer of
phosphine gas.
Is the phosphine gas in the Venus
cloud caused by a volcanic eruption or some other chemical reaction?
While searching for the answer to that
question, scientists could not find a satisfactory explanation for it. That is
why the research of scientists is now revolving around the cause of an
organism.
Sosa-Silva said, “Venus may not be
habitable now, but life may have existed on its surface a long time ago. Maybe
the greenhouse effect has made the planet uninhabitable now. ”
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