LIFE ON VENUS
NEW YORK, June 1G. Astronomers at Mount Wilson Observatory have found indications that tbe atmosphere of Venus contains car bon dioxide, which is one of the essentials to life as we know it on our own planet. ' The Carnegie Institution, which niade the announcement to-day, points out that this is the first time that a gas of any kind has been identified in the spectrum of any of the sun's planets. The presence of life on "earth' ; twin si^ter" has, however, not yet been 4e-rrionsti-ated; this spectroscopic discovery of Doctors Walter Adams and T-heodore Digham has still to be checked, and even if it is checked it woul 1 only suggest that one conditions favourable to life exists on the planet. In any case, as Venus seems to h. veiled in eternal clouds, it is probabithat any signs of life on its surfacc will never be dctccted even if they exist.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 301, 15 August 1932, Page 6
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