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Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

These signs were detected higher in the atmosphere, where the temperature and pressure are more reasonable. And since it took until now to detect the presence of the ammonia, it's probably not a large component of the atmosphere.

So not boiling hot and probably not that much ammonia. That still leaves the thick clouds of sulfuric acid though, those are still very much a thing any probe or mission to Venus would have to be able to deal with.