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Vegetative life on Venus? or investigations with algae which grow under pure CO2 in hot acid media and at elevated pressures*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Joseph Seckbach  and
W. F. Libby
Joseph Seckbach
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Dept. of Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.A.
W. F. Libby
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Dept. of Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.A.

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Experiments are described with algae grown in a new environment of pure CO2 under pressure and in an acidic nutrient medium at elevated temperatures. One species found in hot-springs was observed to grow. If the planet Venus has acidic polar seas as we suggest, they may harbor photosynthetic life.

Type
Part I: Venus
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 40: Planetary Atmospheres , 1971 , pp. 62 - 83
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971 

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