Scientists analyzed the relative water availability of the planets in our solar system, and there's good news and bad news.
The bad news first: Venus is so water-deprived that even the most drought-resistant of Earth microbes wouldn't stand a chance of surviving in its atmosphere. The good news is that the study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggests there is still hope for finding microbial life on Jupiter given the water content of its clouds.
The findings come just as the scientific community was getting excited about the prospect of finding life on Venus. In 2020, researchers detected large amounts of the molecule phosphine in the clouds of Venus, a compound that's associated with life on Earth — many believe it could only be present on Venus as a waste product of living microorganisms.
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