Is there life on Venus? This privately-funded mission seeks to find out
INTERGALACTIC AFFAIRS: New mission will investigate the atmosphere of Earth’s seemingly inhospitable neighbor to see if bacteria live in its clouds, and solve other mysteries in the process.
AN ARTIST’S conception of the aerial biosphere in the cloud layers of Venus’s atmosphere. In this picture, hypothetical microbial life in the clouds of Venus resides inside protective cloud particles and is carried by winds around the planet.(photo credit: Joanna Petkowska)ByAARON REICH
