Washington, D.C. - NASA recently revealed that it is possible that aliens live in acid clouds of Venus, even though their bodies are the size of tiny bacteria. Researchers think the planet's upper atmosphere - rich in sulfur dioxide (SO2) - is home to microbes.
Scientists used a space probe to detect a dark basin on Venus. Most Venus clouds are made up of sulfuric acid, reflecting 75 percent of the sun's rays that try to illuminate it. Therefore, the second nearest planet with the sun looks blurry and opaque.
Venus is dubbed the evil twin of Earth because of its very inhospitable surface conditions, acid rain and temperatures reaching 462 degrees Celsius.
The study, published earlier this week in the journal Astrobiology, shows extra-terrestrial microbes can survive with the wind from a colder cloud.
Study author and biological chemist at California State Polytechnic University, explains that life on Earth can develop in certain acidity levels, can stay alive among carbon dioxide, and produce sulfuric acid.
Venus once had a habitable climate, with water flowing on its surface for 2 billion years.
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NASA reported, "Our comparative analysis supports a mixed hypothesis that terrestrial-type living creatures can survive in it and contribute to the spectral signs of the Venus cloud."
"To test the ideas presented here, we propose the need for an integrated chemistry, biochemistry and microbiology study that focuses on the survival and spectroscopy of terrestrial microorganisms among the Venusian clouds," NASA said.
Experts say more investigation is needed on Venus, while the "behind the scenes" team has asked the sample to be returned to Earth.
Sanjay Limaye of the Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Venus has plenty of time to evolve.
"Venus shows episodic darkness, a sulfur-rich basin, at a ratio of 30 to 40 percent in ultraviolet, and muffled in long waves," he said as quoted by Express on Sunday April 1, 2018.
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