{"id":776987,"date":"2024-02-12T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776987"},"modified":"2024-02-12T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:38:56","slug":"molecules-vital-for-life-could-survive-in-venuss-acid-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776987","title":{"rendered":"Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus\u2019s acid clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The acid clouds surrounding Venus might not be hostile to some of life\u2019s key molecules<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">JAXA\/ISAS\/DARTS\/Kevin M. Gill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Amino acids can survive in concentrated sulphuric acid similar to that found in Venus\u2019s clouds. This doesn\u2019t make Earth-like life more likely in these clouds, but it does open the possibility of a kind of life based on sulphuric acid instead of water.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Venus\u2019s clouds can harbour life has been hotly argued by scientists in recent years, especially after phosphine, a molecule produced predominantly by living organisms, was spotted in the planet\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2412021-molecules-vital-for-life-could-survive-in-venuss-acid-clouds\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acid clouds surrounding Venus might not be hostile to some of life\u2019s key molecules JAXA\/ISAS\/DARTS\/Kevin M. Gill Amino acids can survive in concentrated sulphuric acid similar to that found&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/776988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}