Sep 21 2020 30 mins 35
Have you heard the big news? Of course you have, evidence of phosphine on Venus which could be a biosignature of life on our evil twin planet. There have been a lot of surprising stories about Venus, so let’s get you all caught up. Download MP3 | Show Notes | Transcript Show Notes Press and embargo policies (Nature) Venus (Wikipedia) Hints of life on Venus (Royal Astronomical Society) Alien life could be living in the clouds above Venus (BBC) The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere (Astrobiology) PODCAST: Gas giant found orbiting white dwarf star and a Wolf-Rayet binary produces dust plus interview with Professor Sara Seager, MIT (Daily Space) What Is Phosphine and Why Does It Point to Extra-Terrestrial Life Floating in the Clouds of Venus? (SciTechDaily) Could Venus have been habitable (EPSC-DPS 2019) Researchers Discover What May Be 37 Active Volcanoes on Venus (Smithsonian Magazine) Agnostic Biosignatures,” And the Path to Life as We Don’t Know It (NASA) Life in the Clouds of Venus? (Nature, behind paywall) Tardigrades (Arizona State University) Long-term Variations of Venus’s 365 nm Albedo Observed by Venus Express, Akatsuki, MESSENGER, and the Hubble Space Telescope (The Astronomical Journal) Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres (Astrobiology) The phosphine discovered in Venus’ clouds may be a big deal. Here’s what you need to know. (Space.com) Corona – planetary geology (Wikipedia) Tonian Transitions in Earth’s Marine Biosphere (NASA) In Search of Panspermia (NASA) Microbes Survive, and Maybe Thrive, High in the Atmosphere (Science Magazine) Life in Extreme Heat (National Park Service) Venus Climate Orbiter AKATSUKI (JAXA) BepiColombo overview (ESA) NASA’s Discovery Program (NASA) NASA Goddard Team Selected to Design Concept for Probe of Mysterious Venus Atmosphere (NASA) Will NASA’s Next Mission to Venus Be a Balloon? (Scientific American) India Has a New Planetary Target in Mind: Venus (Space.com) Russia Wants to Return to Venus, Build Reusable Rocket (The Moscow Times) Rocket Lab’s plan to search for life on Venus in 2023 just got more exciting (Space.com) 6 Things to Know About NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (NASA) High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC) (NASA) Basics of Space Flight (NASA) PODCAST: Dark matter discrepancy; unique supernova; extreme galaxies plus guest Dr. David Grinspoon (Daily Space)
