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Phosphine on Venus as well. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/possible-sign-of-life-found-on-venus-phosphine-gas https://www.nationalgeographic

• oboes 3y ago
  This has been discussed a lot at the time, but it turned out to be an error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus#Phosphine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus#Phosphine
  • romusha 3y ago
    Soon this one will be too
    • xorbax 3y ago
      Uh, no, I wouldn't bet on that. You can guess that they're overselling phosphorous as a landmark Finding organic carbon everywhere used to seem very exciting - turns out that's just the fate of low-number metals in the universe. Who'da thunk such a thing.
      • mitthrowaway2 3y ago
        > Phosphorus [...] metal What...? Oh, right. Cosmology. https://xkcd.com/2340/ https://xkcd.com/2340/
• neurosage 3y ago
  A follow-up study refuted that. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-phosphine-venus-isnt.html https://phys.org/news/2022-12-phosphine-venus-isnt.html edit: A follow up to this follow up found that it had calibration errors and reported 3ppb on Venus. The original study however had 20ppb. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09852 https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09852