Thread by @ThePlanetaryGuy

Day 3 of the #VeneraD workshop!

And we're pivoting away from landing sites now and turning to cloud habitability - with the first talk given by Michael Way, about possible conditions on early #Venus!

The next talk is from Shawn Domagal-Goldman, who's describing (remotely, from the US!) how #Venus offers us a useful natural laboratory to understand planetary habitability in general

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Up next: Sanjay Limaye is talking about the still-unknown absorbers of sunlight in the #Venus atmosphere - and the tantalizing possibility that there could be *microbes* in that atmosphere...

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The prospect of there being life in the atmosphere of #Venus - however unlikely or difficult to determine - is *fascinating*

Next, Oleg Kotsyurbenko reviews microorganisms from extreme environments on Earth that might help is understand what could be possible on Venus

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Another talk from the US (where, at best, it's not quite 5:00 am!), this time by David Grinspoon (@DrFunkySpoon) about how we might think about a putative cloud biosphere on #Venus!

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Quote of the day so far, from @DrFunkySpoon: "Venus was a bummer" after the Mariner 2 mission in 1962

After a quick break, Vladimir Kompanichenko is reviewing the possible origins of life on early #Venus under a scenario of available liquid water

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The last talk before lunch - by Valeriy Snytnikov - discusses the possible chemical bases for life on #Venus, were it to exist

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