Ira Flatow
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first heard Apr 2026
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I'm Ira Flato.
Hi, Ira here, and you're listening to Science Friday.
Dr. Sarah Seeger has made a career out of looking for signs of life in outer space, searching for exoplanets thousands of light years away.
But now Dr. Seeger has come home, sort of.
She has turned her attention to our neighbor, the planet Venus.
At first, it would seem like an unlikely place to look for life.
Its surface temperature is hot enough to melt lead.
It has a smothering carbon dioxide atmosphere, all topped off with sulfuric acid clouds.
But Dr. Seeger thinks it might be possible for some form of life to survive there, not on the planet's surface, but up in those clouds.
Dr. Sarah Seeger is an astrophysicist, planetary scientist at MIT, and part of a team leading a proposed series of missions to Venus to sample those clouds for evidence of life.
Welcome back to Science Friday.
Thanks, Ira.
You know, when I list the conditions on Venus, life doesn't seem likely.
The idea that life might exist in the clouds there, where does that come from and why are you hopeful about that?
How would that life form be?
Would it be the kind of life we have here on Earth?
Now, how would you know that, that life exists there?
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