Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark
THE SO WHAT
Narrowing the candidates for Venus’s UV absorber is less about aliens and more about how we model extreme atmospheres and radiative transfer. If you work in climate, remote sensing, or planetary data, expect these constraints to feed back into better instruments and simulation tools over the next decade.
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