Possible signs of Life discovered on Venus!

Due to the fact that Astronomers mostly look towards Mars for proof of existence of extra-terrestrial life, and because of the high temperature on Venus, they always dismissed looking further into Venus. But recently, astronomers discovered presence of the gas phosphine in Venus’s atmosphere. This gas is a chemical by-product of biological life, which could indicate that something is living on Venus, mostly alien microbes (Greaves, 2020). Astronomers are stating that there are no other explanation for the gas on Venus, other than presence of life.

Earth’s twin

Due to the fact that Venus is considered being “Earth’s twin” for having the same mass as earth, some skeptics wonder if the phosphine could be proof of possiblity that Venus was once more like Earth than we previously believed. Many in the scientific community believe that Venus was a planet that was once covered in water, and may have had an environment where life would be a possibility (Torbet, 2019).

Since Earth wasn’t much different in its pre-human history, it could be suggested that life may exist beneath Venus’ atmosphere decades ago.

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan, an astronomer, co-authored in 1967 a paper saying that there is a huge possibility of finding microbial life on Venus. “If small amounts of minerals are stirred up to the clouds from the surface, it is by no means difficult to imagine an indigenous biology in the clouds of Venus,” he wrote in Nature in 1967 — two years before NASA landed on the moon (History.com Editors, 2019). Just 11 years after Sagan made his prediction, there was another Venus probe discovered methane in the atmosphere. This could be an indication that there was a presence of organic material. This same material was found on Mars, which has yet to be explained (Kragh, 2019).