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Planet Venus, its atmosphere may contain life forms: the study

Space exploration and the advancement of scientific research are opening up so many new fronts in terms of our knowledge of our solar system and the universe in general. Recently, an experiment was conducted that demonstrated the possibility that the atmosphere of the planet Venus has in it the characteristics suitable for life.

The study was conducted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and was published in the journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Science'.

The surface of Venus has an excessively high temperature to host any form of life, but in the atmosphere things could be different. According to the authors, the search for extraterrestrial life should consider a wide range of potentially habitable environments beyond those known on Earth.

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Venus' atmosphere could be suitable for hosting life forms
Space exploration and the advancement of scientific research are opening up so many new fronts in terms of our knowledge of our solar system and the universe in general. Recently, an experiment was conducted that demonstrated the possibility that the atmosphere of the planet Venus has the characteristics suitable for life.
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Venus' atmosphere could be suitable for hosting life forms
The study was conducted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and was published in the journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Science'.
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Venus' atmosphere could be suitable for hosting life forms
The surface of Venus is too hot to host any life forms, but in the atmosphere things could be different. According to the authors, the search for extraterrestrial life should consider a wide range of potentially habitable environments beyond those known on Earth.
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Venus' atmosphere could be suitable for hosting life forms
Sara Seager and her colleagues exposed the nucleic acid bases (adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine and uracil) the purine and pyrimidine nuclei of the nucleic acid bases and the adenine substituent, 2,6-diaminopurine, to chemical and temperature conditions comparable to those found in the clouds of Venus. The conditions included sulphuric acid concentrations between 81% and 98% by weight in water at room temperature. The scientists determined the stability of nucleic acid bases using UV and Nmr spectroscopy.
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Venus' atmosphere could be suitable for hosting life forms
The nucleic acid bases remained stable under the starting conditions (those of Venus' atmosphere) after 18-24 hours and after two weeks. Although the DNA molecule itself is not stable, the relative stability of the nucleic acid bases under such conditions suggests that a potentially stable replacement structure might be capable of holding genetic information.
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