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Presence of Phosphine on Venus

The statement "By late October 2020, re-analysis of data with a proper subtraction of background did not result in the detection of phosphine" seems to have now itself been rendered outdated by the original team^[1] who has now found a smaller amount of phosphine but still seems to have found phosphine none the less. Maybe amending this section to say the status of phosphine is still uncertain considering the multiple contradictory analyses of the atmosphere are now available. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmesco17 (talk • contribs)

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^ Greaves, Jane. "Re-analysis of Phosphine in Venus' Clouds". arXiv. Retrieved 16 Nov 2020.

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Maintaining this article is more difficult than necessary because of the extensive gunk in the form of inline citations and notes. It would be much simpler if the citations and notes were transferred to the reflist template containers. I'd like to propose making this migration happen so this FA can be more readily kept up to date. Does anybody object? Right now it's a mixture of inline references with references in the templates, so it would just be a matter of migrating the remainder. Praemonitus (talk) 14:50, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, there are no objections. Praemonitus (talk) 17:04, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

- - - - concern over scientists/science writers describing the Venusian surface as "hell" or hellish ****

In archive 3--- some mocked the description and asked for references. In literature of the 1960s/70s after it was found to be 800+ degrees F....it was indeed quite usual to call it hellish.

https://www.science.org/content/article/armed-tough-computer-chips-scientists-are-ready-return-hell-venus

https://www.cnet.com/science/venus-is-hell-but-science-is-seriously-looking-for-life-in-its-skies/

https://spacenews.com/is-venus-a-living-hell-conversation-with-astrobiologist-david-grinspoon/

Chesspride216.144.161.51 (talk) 01:41, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Greaves, Jane. "Re-analysis of Phosphine in Venus' Clouds". arXiv. Retrieved 16 Nov 2020.

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