About That Phosphine On Venus Discovery ...

No Phosphine In The Atmosphere Of Venus

"The detection of phosphine (PH3) has been recently reported in the atmosphere of Venus employing mm-wave radio observations (Greaves et at. 2020). We here demonstrate that the observed PH3 feature with JCMT can be fully explained employing plausible mesospheric SO2 abundances (~100 ppbv as per the SO2 profile given in their figure 9), while the identification of PH3 in the ALMA data should be considered invalid due to severe baseline calibration issues. We demonstrate this by independently calibrating and analyzing the ALMA data using different interferometric analysis tools, in which we observe no PH3 in all cases."

- Phosphine Detected In The Atmosphere of Venus - An Indicator of Possible Life?, earlier post
- Re-analysis Of The 267-GHz ALMA Observations of Venus: No Statistically Significant Detection Of Phosphine, earlier post
- A Stringent Upper Limit Of The PH3 (Phosphine) Abundance At The Cloud Top Of Venus , earlier post
- Hypothesis Perspectives: Might Active Volcanisms Today Contribute To The Presence Of Phosphine In Venus's Atmosphere?, earlier post
- Phosphine On Venus Cannot Be Explained By Conventional Processes, earlier post
- Phosphine Gas in the Cloud Decks of Venus, earlier post
- Possible Marker Of Life Spotted On Venus, earlier post

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