"The time has come to return to Venus with modern instruments"

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• TERESA GUERRERO

  @teresaguerrerof

  Madrid

Thursday, 17 September 2020 - 12:45

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• Biomarkers.

  Chemical fingerprints to search for life

• Jane Greaves.

  The discoverer of phosphine: "I was so stunned that I had to drive carefully to avoid crashing"

When it became known that in the clouds of Venus there is a gas called phosphine that could indicate that they harbor life, their thing would have been to quickly send a ship to check it.

Although right now there is a probe orbiting this planet, the Japanese

, unfortunately none of the four instruments that are still operational has the ability to do spectroscopy, so it will not be able to help clarify if there is any form of life.

This is what Takehiko Satoh, one of the r

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