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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Production of ammonia makes Venusian clouds habitable and explains observed cloud-level chemical anomalies.

William Bains, Janusz J Petkowski, Paul B Rimmer, Sara Seager

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Life on Venus?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  11. Stability of nucleic acid bases in concentrated sulfuric acid: Implications for the habitability of Venus' clouds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

William BainsDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Janusz J PetkowskiDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-1921-4848
Paul B RimmerDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7180-081X
Sara SeagerDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; seager@mit.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The atmosphere of Venus remains mysterious, with many outstanding chemical connundra. These include the unexpected presence of ∼10 ppm O

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astrobiologyatmospheric chemistrycloudshabitabilityVenus

Identifiers

PMID34930842
PMCPMC8719887

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