Does Venus Have Life? With Dr. Janusz Petkowski
Is There Life on Venus?
Last week a team from MIT and Cardiff University announced the detection of Phosphine in the atmosphere at Venus our nearest neighbor. Phosphine (PH3) gas in Venus’s atmosphere should be in oxidized forms. Dr. Janusz Petkowski from the MIT team lead by Sara Seager, joins John Michael Godier on Event Horizon to discuss this finding in detail.
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Link:
Janusz Petkowski website
https://www.januszpetkowski.com/
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Papers:
Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
Phosphine on Venus Cannot be Explained by
Conventional Processes
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.06499.pdf
Silicon Life:
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/6/84
The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/1...
Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet
Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/19...
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