{"id":218395,"date":"2025-07-21T10:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/life-on-venus-probe-mission-could-search-venus-clouds-for-unexplained-hydrogen-rich-gases"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:03:02","slug":"life-on-venus-probe-mission-could-search-venus-clouds-for-unexplained-hydrogen-rich-gases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/life-on-venus-probe-mission-could-search-venus-clouds-for-unexplained-hydrogen-rich-gases","title":{"rendered":"Life on Venus? Probe mission could search Venus clouds for unexplained hydrogen-rich gases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-on-venus-probe-mission-could-search-venus-clouds-for-unexplained-hydrogen-rich-gases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The answer to whether tiny bacterial life-forms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once and for all by a UK-backed mission.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five years, researchers have detected the presence of two potential biomarkers\u2014the gases phosphine and ammonia\u2014which on Earth can only be produced by biological activity and industrial processes.<\/p>\n<p>Their existence in the Venusian clouds cannot easily be explained by known atmospheric or geological phenomena, so Cardiff University\u2019s Professor Jane Greaves and her team are plotting a way to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer to whether tiny bacterial life-forms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once and for all by a UK-backed mission. Over the past five years, researchers have detected the presence of two potential biomarkers\u2014the gases phosphine and ammonia\u2014which on Earth can only be produced by biological activity and industrial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218395","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}