{"id":126257,"date":"2021-08-15T21:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/nasa-is-returning-to-venus-where-its-470c-will-we-find-life-when-we-get-there"},"modified":"2021-08-15T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:22:45","slug":"nasa-is-returning-to-venus-where-its-470c-will-we-find-life-when-we-get-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/nasa-is-returning-to-venus-where-its-470c-will-we-find-life-when-we-get-there","title":{"rendered":"NASA Is Returning to Venus, Where It\u2019s 470\u00b0C. Will We Find Life When We Get There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-is-returning-to-venus-where-its-470c-will-we-find-life-when-we-get-there3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has selected two missions, dubbed DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, to study the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasa-selects-2-missions-to-study-lost-habitable-world-of-venus\">lost habitable<\/a>\u201d world of Venus. Each mission will receive approximately $500 million for development and both are expected to launch between 2,028 and 2030.<\/p>\n<p>It had long been thought there was no life on Venus, due to its extremely high temperatures. But late last year, scientists studying the planet\u2019s atmosphere announced the surprising (and somewhat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-020-1174-4\">controversial<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2020GL091327\">discovery<\/a> of phosphine. On Earth, this chemical is produced primarily by living organisms.<\/p>\n<p>The news sparked renewed interest in Earth\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/venus-earth-twin-evolution-life-search.html#\">twin<\/a>,\u201d prompting NASA to plan state-of-the-art missions to look more closely at the planetary environment of Venus\u2014which could hint at life-bearing conditions. <em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has selected two missions, dubbed DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, to study the \u201clost habitable\u201d world of Venus. Each mission will receive approximately $500 million for development and both are expected to launch between 2,028 and 2030. It had long been thought there was no life on Venus, due to its extremely high temperatures. But late [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}