Possible effects of volcanic eruptions on the modern atmosphere of Venus

CF Wilson, E Marcq, C Gillmann, T Widemann… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
This work reviews possible signatures and potential detectability of present-day volcanically
emitted material in the atmosphere of Venus. We first discuss the expected composition of …

Phosphine in the Venusian atmosphere: a strict upper limit from SOFIA GREAT observations

MA Cordiner, GL Villanueva… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of phosphine (PH3) in the atmosphere of Venus was reported by Greaves et
al.(2021, https://doi. org/10.1038/s41550-020-1174-4), based on observations of the J= 1–0 …

Super-Earths and Earth-like exoplanets

T Lichtenberg, Y Miguel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.04057, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the last few years astronomical surveys have expanded the reach of planetary science
into the realm of small and dense extrasolar worlds. These share a number of characteristics …

Astrobiological potential of Venus atmosphere chemical anomalies and other unexplained cloud properties

JJ Petkowski, S Seager, DH Grinspoon, W Bains… - Astrobiology, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Long-standing unexplained Venus atmosphere observations and chemical anomalies point
to unknown chemistry but also leave room for the possibility of life. The unexplained …

Source of phosphine on Venus—An unsolved problem

W Bains, S Seager, DL Clements… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The tentative detection of ppb levels of phosphine (PH3) in the clouds of Venus was
extremely surprising, as this reduced gas was not expected to be a component of Venus' …

[BOG][B] Origin of life via Archaea: Shaped droplets to Archaea first, with a compendium of Archaea micrographs

R Gordon - 2024 - books.google.com
This book surveys the models for the origin of life and presents a new model starting with
shaped droplets and ending with life as polygonal Archaea; it collects the most published …

[HTML][HTML] Ammonia and phosphine in the clouds of Venus as potentially biological anomalies

CE Cleland, PB Rimmer - Aerospace, 2022 - mdpi.com
We are of the opinion that several anomalies in the atmosphere of Venus provide evidence
of yet-unknown processes and systems that are out of equilibrium. The investigation of these …

A Novel Abiotic Pathway for Phosphine Synthesis over Acidic Dust in Venus' Atmosphere

K Mráziková, A Knížek, H Saeidfirozeh, L Petera… - Astrobiology, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Recent ground-based observations of Venus have detected a single spectral feature
consistent with phosphine (PH3) in the middle atmosphere, a gas which has been …

Uncertainty in phosphine photochemistry in the Venus atmosphere prevents a firm biosignature attribution

F Wunderlich, JL Grenfell, H Rauer - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The possible detection of phosphine (PH 3) in the clouds of Venus has raised the
question as to which processes could produce such large abundances of PH 3. Previous …

Analysis of experimental spectra of phosphine in the Tetradecad range near 2.3 μm using ab initio calculations

AV Nikitin, A Campargue, AE Protasevich… - … Acta Part A: Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to its major interest for the chemistry of planetary atmospheres and exobiology,
accurate spectroscopy data of phosphine are required for the search of signatures of this …