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A new analysis hints that there may not be much phosphine on Venus after all. September’s announcement of observations of phosphine gas in the Venusian atmosphere sparked excitement because of the possibility that it could have come from life. But researchers digging through archive data have placed a stringent limit on how much of the unexpected gas is actually there.
After the original detection, Clara Sousa-Silva at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts – who was also involved in the research announced in September – and her …
source: newscientist.com