NASA Openly Admits Alien Life Exists: Get Ready For Disclosure

Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.

Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:

“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”

It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.

Stofan goes on to say:

“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”

What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, our shadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.

William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.

We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millenia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10 million years

Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.

Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:

“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”

It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.

Stofan goes on to say:

“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”

What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, our shadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.

William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.

We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millenia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10 million years old.

We will learn that a recent computer hacking retrieved millions of government and corporate personnel records, some say as part of documentation for Nuremburg-like trials, will begin soon against those who have mind-controlled, enslaved and tortured us. Undeniable photos of UFOs were also unearthed.

We will also learn that chemtrails and GMOs were the LEAST of plans made for us ‘sheeple’ and ‘useless eaters’ by a Luciferian cabal, and that President Harry Truman signed a document with certain ETs that allowed the ‘elite’ to conduct highly technological experiments with intelligence gained from these ETs in exchange for looking the other way when certain humans were abducted for ET experiments.

We will learn that our ascension into infinitely peaceful beings is indeed possible, and it has been described in countless books, many of which have been suppressed along with UFO information.

NASA is telling us now that the likelihood of alien life is a ruse. Be sure to remember those who have been executed to try to prove this information to us decades ago, and to use discernment when the truth is finally revealed.

We will learn that we are not helpless, as we have been programmed to believe.

We are, in fact, a rare humanoid race that has an incredible range of emotion and creative power. We will learn that our minds and emotions can either fuel chaos on this planet, or restore it to its rightful place of peace and cooperation, of care for others at least as much as ourselves.

NASA accidentally films the BEST UFO sightings yet (VIDEO)

 

In the movie, a mysterious object - with a peculiar disc-shaped design - seems to move from 

the Earth's atmosphere causing a huge debate on social networks. What it was? Alien vehicle?

Space debris? Optical illusion or simply Swamp Gas? Some are convinced that it is the 

latest evidence that Earth is being visited by alien beings, while others remain skeptical 

and still not convinced.



Ever since the movie was uploaded to YouTube, it has generated controversy both among those 

who support the idea that it could be an extraterrestrial object, and between those who are 

completely skeptical about the subject, and as a joke they suggest that "the UFOs that they 

are planning to enter our airspace should be registered and pay taxes. "



The truth is that on many occasions only fragments of video are released in which these 

mysterious objects are visible.

However, the fact that NASA interrupts its live feed broadcasts is what raises most 

suspicions among those who are eager to find new evidence for the existence of alien life, 

UFOs and how we are all part of a massive conspiracy.

A user wrote on YouTube:

"The question is not" is it an alien spaceship? "But really" Why didn't NASA cut or blur 

this video like they always do with other strange places? "

According to many people, in today's era, it is no longer a question of whether UFOs are 

real. Indeed, if we look back into the past, we will see numerous fascinating statements 

made by ex astronauts, military officers and scientists about Alien about the life and 

existence of UFOs.

NASA Has Released Awesome Footage That Has Revolutionized Our Understanding Of Mars

 

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shared some surprising new footage of their latest flights 

over Mars. Some recent flybys have revealed new avalanche images that are forming on Mars. 

These flybys have helped scientists develop new and more accurate theories of the sea and 

its past. Learn more about this in the video below:

NASA is Planning to Capture an Asteroid and Put it in Orbit Around the Moon

 

NASA is planning a mission to redirect an asteroid in orbit around the moon. The space 

agency has identified a number of potential asteroid candidates. Once chosen, NASA will 

launch a robotic mission to visit the asteroid. When this robotic spacecraft arrives at 

the intended asteroid, it will pick up a multi-ton boulder and redirect it to the moon. 

A team of astronauts will then visit the boulder in orbit and collect samples to bring 

them back to earth.
 

The asteroid redirection mission [ARM] will begin in the early 2020s. It is part of NASA's plan to test and advance the technologies needed for the mission to Mars in the 2030s.

NASA IS ‘ON THE VERGE’ OF ANNOUNCING ALIEN LIFE, SAYS ANONYMOUS

 

A new video released by an unofficial YouTube channel that claims to be affiliated with the 

hacktivist collective Anonymous says that NASA is about to announce evidence of alien life.

The video includes excerpts from three articles that appeared on the Ancient Code conspiracy 

website, which is registered in Croatia, according to the Daily Mail. The video comes after 

the recent announcements of Kepler's NASA to discover hundreds of new potential exoplanet 

candidates, 10 of which are believed to be Earth-sized and could be habitable and could favor 

the hunt for alien life.

Anonymous's video focuses on Kepler's latest discovery and also features comments from NASA's 

scientific mission director of administration Thomas Zurbuchen, who spoke during the hearing 

of the U.S. Congress in April about various interesting discoveries and progress recently 

made by the space agency.

"Taking into account all the different activities and missions that are specifically looking 

for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound and 

unprecedented discoveries in history," said Zurbuchen during the congressional hearing of the 

commission on " Progress in the search for life ".

It is important to note, however, that although Zurbuchen's comments reflect his and the 

scientific community's enthusiasm for advances in extraterrestrial life research, they do not 

suggest NASA that it has potentially discovered any real evidence of intelligent alien life. 

Instead, reports speculate that his comments point to various recent discoveries of exoplanets.

 These include Trappist-1's "twin solar system", which suggests the possibility of the 

existence of Earth-like habitable planets, which may harbor microbial extraterrestrial life.

Although the alleged claims of the anonymous video may seem far-fetched, the hacktivist 

collective is not alone in assuming the existence of an alien life. Space tycoon Robert 

Bigelow, whose firm Bigelow Aerospace produced expandable space habitats for the International 

Space Station (ISS), said aliens may have already visited Earth and may even be living among 

humans.

According to various astronomers, we could probably find evidence of alien life in the coming

decades. An astronomer recently said that we could uncover evidence of alien microbial life 

within the next 10-15 years. However, the famous astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson said in 

a recent Reddit AMA that the probability of discovering complex and intelligent 

extraterrestrial life within the next 50 years is practically nothing.

Meanwhile, the United States government has also focused its attention on expanding its 

space divisions within its armed forces in anticipation of the potential space war.

The new anonymous videos suggest how the hacktivist group seems to have moved away. The 

group was once well known for launching massive campaigns related to prevailing 

socio-cultural issues, including the key role in the Arab Spring. But according to experts, 

the group seems to have lost its way.

"In my opinion, Anonymous, in general, is overpopulated by fanatical screenwriters who 

barely know politics, much less hacking." Rik Ferguson, Europol's security expert and close 

adviser, told Infosecurity Europe 2017.

Could Nasa Nuke Planet X To Save Earth Or Is It Too Late?

 According to crazy conspiracy theorists, who believe the mythical planet will appear within the skies on Saturday, NASA should be looking to wipe out Nibiru with a W.M.D. to avoid wasting Earth from death and destruction. Planet X believers claim the massive planet, also referred to as Planet X, will pass Earth at four million miles away in October, but the vast size of it'll cause our poles to modify and large seismic activity thanks to the gravity.

And Christian theorists claim the arrival of Nibiru from Saturday, September 23 indicates The Rapture is on the point of start before the Second Coming of Christ.

NASA has reassured us Nibiru could be a massive online hoax, however, many conspiracy theorists continue claiming a large hide is underway and world leaders are preparing to cover away in bunkers while the remainder folks perish.

Some have even outlandishly claimed online that NASA should be looking to “nuke” Nibiru before it gets here.

One online forum user posted: “Isn’t this planet X presupposed to be amazingly large?

“I say, if that planet comes around we declare war on those technology hoarding a** wipes. I put forth a motion to nuke the **** out of this Planet X. Put this in your sig if you're in agreement.”

But if Earth were faced with the threat of a rogue planet passing, could Nasa actually send nuclear warheads into space to enlarge Nibiru to avoid the catastrophe or would the mission be in vain?

Firstly, the US space agency says it'll NOT take any action because it's dismissed Nibiru as a hoax.

Nasa scientist Dr David Morrison said: “Nibiru isn’t real, Planet X isn’t real. We shouldn’t worry about this hoax.”

Dr Morrison added: “There is not any credible evidence whatever for the existence of Nibiru. There aren't any pictures, no tracking, no astronomical observations.

“I can quite specifically say how we all know Planet X or Nibiru doesn't exist and doesn't threaten the planet.”

Secondly, Nasa doesn't yet have the technology.

The Nasa Near-Earth Object defence programme (NEOWISE) has yet to check any theoretical way of coping with even an oversized asteroid that threatened the planet, let alone a rogue planet if one existed.

And, there's not expected to be any useable system in situ for a minimum of the following 100 years. To add to the current, two out of three of Nasa’s proposed deflection strategies, firing nuclear bombs at an asteroid heading towards Earth, or trying to alter its course using the gravitational attraction of an area craft, wouldn't work in step with a panel of experts from campaign group World Asteroid Day.

It is believed that hitting a serious asteroid with a nuclear bomb would simply cause it to blow into smaller fragments that may precipitate on earth, increasing the realm of impact.

Scientists also fear we might not have a spaceship large enough to knock even an enormous asteroid after all if it had been heading to earth, so there's little that would be done to affect the trail of a planet.

Nasa itself believes it should be possible to destroy one if it absolutely was far enough away when the warhead struck.

They have been investigating a way to use nuclear bombs to deflect comets, asteroids and meteors.

But Nasa is confident it still has time to develop its deflection strategy.

Nasa scientist Jason Kessler, who runs the ‘near-Earth” asteroid programme, said: “The likelihood of something hitting us within the future is pretty guaranteed, although we’re not freaking out that there's an imminent threat.”

The US space agency is confident there are not any large asteroids on the right track for Earth anything soon.

A Nasa spokesman said: “Nasa knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, therefore the probability of a significant collision is kind of small.

“In fact, as best as we will tell, no large object is probably going to strike the planet any time within the next several hundred years.”

But online forums are awash with debate about Nibiru.

YouTube by Sky-Watcher Matt Rogers, a conspiracy theorist who scours the sky for evidence of Nibiru claims in an exceedingly new video that world leaders know Nibiru is coming, and that we are all doomed, but they're keeping it from the general public to forestall panic, as they wait to cover in underground bunkers.

Mr Rogers, who is predicated within the UK, said: “NASA has covered it up. the govt shut it all the way down to prevent mass panic, but it's coming, this is often a fact.”

There is, of course, no evidence to copy his claims.

NASA confirms there is water on the moon that astronauts could use

 Water on the moon could also be more abundant and accessible than previously thought, which may be excellent news for future astronauts.

Paul Hayne at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his team used camera images and temperature measurements taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map cold, permanently shadowed regions on the moon, which are thought to be the places possibly to contain ice because of their lack of exposure to sunlight.

While there has been any evidence for the presence of water on the moon, these “cold traps” were previously thought to be restricted to deep, kilometers-wide craters. However, the team found that there are micro-cold traps – areas at the meter and millimeter-scale that are permanently shadowed and then could contain more accessible ice. Altogether, the researchers estimate that cold traps occupy about 40,000 square kilometers or roughly 0.1 percent of the moon’s surface.

“We’re seeing billions and billions of those cold traps at scales that haven’t been seen before,” says Hayne. “That presents a chance to extract ice rather more readily. we predict this is often revolutionary in terms of what is going to be possible for astronauts on the moon.”

A separate study has additionally confirmed the presence of water ice (H2O) instead of hydroxyl (OH), which previous observations were unable to tell apart between. Casey Honniball at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and her colleagues used the agency’s SOFIA telescope, which is mounted on a plane to induce a clearer view through Earth’s atmosphere, to identify a spectral signature that's unique to water. “I screamed in excitement,” says Hannibal.

Hannibal says the readings are in keeping with the presence of individual water molecules incorporated in grains within the lunar surface. “This type of water is predicted to be widespread on the surface,” she says.

“Water is central to human life but is pricey to start space,” says Hannibal. “Finding water on the moon may mean we will utilize the water that's there versus bringing the water with us.”

But it still isn’t clear how stable water during this form is over long periods, says William Bottke at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado. “Astronauts may additionally have great difficulty extracting this water,” he says. “For example, to replenish a bottle, the astronauts might process thousands of kilograms of rocks.”

NASA Just Successfully Touched Down on an Asteroid

 NASA just landed a spacecraft on an asteroid and, if everything went as planned, sucked up a sample of dust and rock from the surface.

From 200 million miles away, NASA and its engineering partner, Lockheed Martin, instructed the spacecraft to descend to the surface of an area rock called Bennu.

In just 5 to 10 seconds, the probe should have collected samples from the asteroid's surface. It's set to bring these pieces of Bennu back to Earth later.

OSIRIS-REx, because the spacecraft is understood (short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer), completed this "touch-and-go" operation on Tuesday evening.

The spacecraft beamed back a confirmation that it had landed on Bennu's surface. When the signal reached Earth at 6:11 pm ET, about 18 minutes after the particular touchdown, Mission Control erupted in cheers and applause.

"Transcendental. I am unable to believe we actually pulled this off," Dante Lauretta, the mission's man of science, said during NASA's live broadcast of the operation. "The spacecraft did everything it absolutely was purported to do."

It will take some days to work out whether the probe picked up enough rock. The goal was to induce a minimum of one 2.1-ounce (60-gram) sample, which is a couple of small bags of potato chips' worth of mass.

OSIRIS-REx has been orbiting Bennu since December 2018, scanning the asteroid and collecting the maximum amount of data as possible. It's set to depart in March 2021, samples in tow, then reach Earth on September 24, 2023.

The mission's research might be crucial over the following 100 years since Bennu's path puts it in danger of crashing into Earth.

"Bennu is one in every of the foremost potentially hazardous asteroids, with a non-negligible chance of impacting the world at some point within the 22nd century," Lauretta said in September.

"Part of our science investigation is about understanding its orbital trajectory, refining the impact probability, and documenting its physical and chemical properties in order that future generations can develop an impact-mitigation mission if that's necessary."

There are other important reasons to review Bennu: As new missions go deeper into space, they'll have to make pit stops to mine asteroids for resources like water, which might be split into oxygen and hydrogen for a charge. the info NASA is gathering from Bennu could help inform future asteroid-mining attempts.

OSIRIS-REx is additionally, in a sense, a soul-searching mission. Asteroids are bits of ancient rock from the beginnings of the scheme 4.5 billion years ago. The leftover material that made the rocky planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars - coalesced over time into asteroids, where it's largely preserved in its original form.

NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona A rotating mosaic of Bennu composed of images captured by Osiris-Rex over four hours on December 2, 2018.

A rotating mosaic of Bennu captured by OSIRIS-REx in 2018. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona))

Some theories posit that asteroids delivered key ingredients always to ancient Earth. On Bennu, scientists may find signs of these ingredients, cluing them into how life arose on Earth (and possibly on Mars or Venus as well).

If successful, this mission is going to be one of the primary to return samples of primordial rock. Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft is additionally set to bring back asteroid samples in December.

"This is all about understanding our origins, addressing a number of the foremost fundamental questions that we ask ourselves as human beings: Where did we come from? And are we alone within the universe?" Lauretta said.

NASA's spacecraft dropped 3,000 feet to blast asteroid dust

OSIRIS-REx's early data revealed a controversy for the mission: Bennu is far rockier than NASA thought. Landing during a field of boulders puts a spacecraft in danger of tipping over and getting stranded.

To target the smoothest possible terrain on the asteroid, the OSIRIS-REx mission team chose a landing spot that's much smaller than originally planned. Its leeway is simply 26 feet (8 meters), whereas the initial plan expected it to own 164 feet (50 meters).

That means the spacecraft, which is about the scale of a 15-passenger van, had to focus on a vicinity roughly adequate six parking spaces on the fast-spinning asteroid.

The landing spot may be a relatively smooth area named Nightingale that's covered in a very fine rocky dust called regolith. this can be the fabric that OSIRIS-REx attempted to lift out on Tuesday.

The spacecraft slowly descended about 3,280 feet (1 kilometer), maneuvering past a two-story boulder that mission controllers call "Mount Doom". OSIRIS-REx has twice rehearsed this descent, practicing "basically everything apart from the ultimate two minutes," said Mike Moreau, a project manager.

The sequence goes like this: The spacecraft's thrusters fire, pushing it out of its kilometer-high orbit above Bennu. Then the probe deploys its sample-collection arm and points its navigation camera to the asteroid's surface. About 3 1/2 hours later - and about 410 feet above the surface - the spacecraft fires its thrusters again to push itself toward the landing site. After another 10 minutes and another 260 feet of descent, the spacecraft burns its thrusters to maneuver into a certain landing spot.

The whole operation seems to own gone in step with that plan.

If the spacecraft's instruments had detected hazardous rocks at its landing point, the probe would have initiated a back-away burn just 16 feet above the surface.

But the spacecraft appears to possess reached Bennu's surface with its sample-collection arm stretched down. Through this arm - if collection went consistent with a plan - the spacecraft shot nitrogen gas out of a bottle, stirring up the regolith beneath it. within the disturbance, some material should are caught within the collection tool at the tip of the arm.

Shortly after touchdown, OSIRIS-REx fired its thrusters to push itself aloof from Bennu.

NASA will decide whether to stow the sample or try again

Once the spacecraft is back in Bennu's orbit, it'll take some days for NASA mission controllers to analyze the regolith sample is collected. If there are enough rock and dirt, mission leaders will command the spacecraft to store the sample during a pod for its return to Earth.

But if the spacecraft has but 2.1 ounces of regolith, it'll try again in January, targeting a backup site on a distinct part of the asteroid.

"By far the foremost likely outcome that we'll wear October 20 is we'll contact the surface and are available away with an oversized sample that exceeds our minimum requirements," Moreau said in September.

"But Bennu has thrown us a variety of curveballs."

OSIRIS-REx is carrying three bottles of nitrogen for stirring up dust, allowing it three attempts to descend to Bennu's surface and collect a correct sample.

The Bennu sample should reach Earth in 2023

When OSIRIS-REx returns to Earth in 2023, it should shoot the capsule containing the samples into Earth's atmosphere. The samples should parachute into the Utah desert for NASA to choose up.

"It's visiting probably be Christmas in September," Lauretta said. "The best present I've ever had, these pristine samples from asteroid Bennu that I have been dreaming - literally dreaming - about for, at that time, almost 20 years of my life."

Scientists will set about analyzing the sample, but NASA will preserve a number of the regolith for future study.

"These samples returned from Bennu also will allow future planetary scientists to ask questions we won't even consider today," said Lori Glaze, the director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, "and to be ready to use analysis techniques that are not even invented yet."

Red Dragon Of Revelation: An Area In Space Hidden By Google, Microsoft And NASA

 

What is The 'Red Dragon' anomaly and why was Google Sky hiding it? Something big is on the point of happening and NASA is systematically covering it up. what's hiding within the Virgo constellation? a matter that's causing lots of commotion within the conspiracy and spiritual circles. the planet knows that Google could be a powerful entity across the world and their powers have become more and more. removed from the plain, why would they have to cover this area in Space on Google Sky? 

WHAT ARE NASA AND GOOGLE HIDING

 during this AREA OF SPACE? once they investigated the identical area on other space application platforms, they found similar black boxes hiding what lays beneath. After Google finally released this area in Google Sky, this wild picture shows up. The representation of the world will be compared with a red dragon. That's how it got its name. 

WHAT MAKES THIS SO SIGNIFICANT? 

This object represents a chapter within the Book of Revelations. All that's needed to try and do is do some research and stories may be found. the lady and also the Dragon 12 a good sign appeared in heaven: a lady clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried enter pain as she was on the point of giving birth. 

3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an unlimited red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and 7 crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a 3rd of the celebs out of the sky and flung them to the world. The dragon stood ahead of the lady who was near to give birth in order that it'd devour her child the instant he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a lad, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”[a] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6 the lady fled into the wilderness to an area prepared for her by God, where she may well be taken care of for 1,260 days.

7 Then war broke call at heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and also the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he wasn't strong enough, and that they lost their place in heaven. 9 the nice dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the full world astray. He was hurled to the planet and his angels with him. 

the reality is usually covered up when it should be shared. The constellation shows something that might be identified as a serpent-like creature. Resembling the dragon sitting at the feet of a pregnant woman waiting to devour her child, the dragon is wrestling with another constellation which represents St Michael. Red flags are raised. this can be not a transparent sign of the tip times but in 2017 the globe is facing some scary happenings that raise plenty of questions.

NASA may have found signs of life on Venus in 1978 without realizing

If life does exist on Venus, NASA may have first detected it back in 1978. But the finding went unnoticed for 42 years.

Life on Venus continues to be an extended shot. But there's reason to require the concept seriously. On Sept. 14, a team of scientists made a bombshell announcement within the journal Nature Astronomy: Using telescopes, they'd detected phosphine, a toxic gas long proposed as a possible sign of alien microbial life, within the upper a part of the planet's thick atmosphere. The detection was a landmark within the long look for life elsewhere within the scheme, which has mostly focused attention on Mars and some moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn. Meanwhile, Venus, hot and poisonous, was long considered too inhospitable for all the world to survive. But now, digging through archival NASA data, Rakesh Mogul, a biochemist at Cal Poly Pomona in California, and colleagues have found a touch of phosphine picked up by Pioneer 13 — an inquiry that reached Venus in December 1978.

"When the [Nature Astronomy paper] came out, I immediately thought of the legacy mass spectra," Mogul told Live Science.

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Mogul and his coauthors were broadly aware of the information from the missions, he said. "So, for us, it absolutely was a natural next step to convey the information another look.  As such, after consulting with my co-authors, we identified the initial scientific articles, and promptly started searching for phosphorous compounds."

The discovery, published to the arXiv database Sept. 22 and not yet peer-reviewed, doesn't tell researchers much beyond what was reported in Nature Astronomy — though it does make the presence of phosphine (made of a phosphorus atom and three hydrogens) even more certain, they said. The 1978 data comes from the big Probe Neutral spectroscope (LNMS), one in all several instruments that descended into Venus' atmosphere as a part of the Pioneer 13 mission. 

An image shows how Pioneer-13's Large Probe, which carried the LNMS, may need to look at because it plunged through Venus's clouds.

An image shows how Pioneer 13's large probe, which carried the LNMS, might have looked as it plunged through Venus's clouds. (Image credit: NASA)

Pioneer 13 dropped an oversized probe (the LNMS) into Venus' clouds; suspended from a parachute, the probe collected data and beamed it back to Earth because it plummeted toward its robotic death. (Three smaller probes also dropped from Pioneer 13 without parachutes.) The LNMS sampled the atmosphere and ran those samples through mass spectrometry, a typical lab technique accustomed to identify unknown chemicals. When scientists first described the LNMS leads to the 1970s, they didn't discuss phosphorus-based compounds like phosphine, focusing instead on other chemicals.

When Mogul's team reexamined the LNMS data from Venus' lower and middle clouds (a potentially habitable zone on the planet), they found signals that look a good deal like phosphine, the researchers wrote. The scientists also found definitive evidence for atoms of phosphorus within the atmosphere, which likely came from a heavier gas like phosphine.

LNMS wasn't built to hunt phosphine-like compounds and would have had a tough time distinguishing the gas from other molecules that have similar masses. But Pioneer 13's sample did have evidence of some molecule present within the gas that had the identical mass as phosphine — in amounts that match the amount described within the Nature Astronomy paper.

"I believe that evidence for [trace chemicals that would be signatures of life] within the legacy data was a form of discounted because it absolutely was thought that they might not exist within the atmosphere," Mogul said. "I think many of us are now revisiting the notion of Venus as a completely oxidizing environment." (A "fully oxidizing environment" wouldn't include phosphine or most other chemicals seen as signs of life.)

Mogul and his colleagues also found hints of other chemicals that shouldn't arise naturally in Venus' clouds — substances like chlorine, oxygen, and peroxide.

"We believe this to be a sign of chemistries not yet discovered," they wrote, "and/or chemistries potentially favorable always."

What's needed, they wrote, is further, sustained exploration of Venus.

"We need a more sustained approach for exploration like that of Mars," Mogul said.

NASA and also the European, Indian and Russian space agencies have plans for Venus probes that may be helpful, he said. 

"However, when considering the past, current, and future habitability of Venus, we might need longer-term chemical and geology studies to grasp the sources of any potential chemical [anomalies] within the clouds," he said. "This can be from orbital probes, balloon-suspended probes within the clouds, and/or heat-stable lander probes."

The phrase "heat-stable" is vital, given the planet's habit of killing any robot that lands on its sizzling hot surface.