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Yeah, I studied Astronomy, so am pretty aware of Venus and it's past, thing is that the planet has a very specific vulcanology which all but rules out big water
by CyanBird 6y ago
Yeah, I studied Astronomy, so am pretty aware of Venus and it's past, thing is that the planet has a very specific vulcanology which all but rules out big water bodies allowing for the elemental soup required to create the constantly mixing elements for life
It would be cool if somehow magically the life detected were native to the planet, but I very, very much doubt it. Panspermia from Earth is the most likely scenario
At this point, I fully embrace that the teams doing the research can't find a natural abiotic explainer for the phosphine simply because there isn't one
- henearkr 6y agoBut here they say that Venus may have had oceans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Venus#Ancient_liquid_water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Venus#Ancient_liqui... This is from studies ranging from 2007 to 2016, so it's neither really obsolete or too new.
- CyanBird 6y agoYeah, I am aware of them, but most are entirely theoretical, the most interesting one I saw and it came out while I was studying was one where they used the Galileo to analyze near infrared and from there study the rock composition and they believe they found granite which can only form under large amounts of water. But, I haven't seen studies where that discovery has been corroborated with different methods
- henearkr 6y agoOkay, I guess we just need to wait for geological samples to be sure then ^^;