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Phosphine is a foul-smelling, toxic gas produced by decaying organic matter or bacteria.
On Earth , phosphine is produced by decomposing organic matter and is a sign of life.
But new data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii shows that the gas is present in the clouds of Venus .
Scientists find phosphine in Venus clouds at around the part-per-million level.
Ammonia on Venus would make for an even more surprising discovery, they say.
The clouds of Venus are made of droplets of acid, but they’re not water droplets, Clements says.
The presence of both phosphine and ammonia wouldn’t be evidence of microbial life on Venus .
Scientists’ current understanding of the atmospheric chemistry of Venus cannot explain the presence of phosphine.
The discovery of ammonia and sulfuric acid should not be able to coexist without some process — whether volcanic, biological or something not yet considered — driving the production of ammonia itself.
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