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The Search for Life in Venus’ Clouds

Prof. Sara Seager, Dr. Janusz Petkowski and Dr. William Bains

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Watch this space until 9/15/2020

Venus Cloud Life.

Today only Venus’ atmospheric cloud layers (a large region spanning from 48 to 60 km altitude) have seemingly habitable conditions—the surface (at 735 K) is too hot for any plausible solvent and for most organic covalent chemistry.

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Venus Life Finder Mission Study December 10, 2021
Venus Phosphine Update November 29, 2021
Did Venus ever have oceans? November 18, 2021
Are Venus’ cloud layers too dry for life? October 29, 2021

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