Is There Life in Venus's Clouds?

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We would like to go to venus, capture some of the atmosphere and cloud particles and bring them back to earth so we can study them in extensive detail. Once these dried out spores get transported up to the cloud layer, they can attract liquid and rehydrate and then maybe rained down again. But this is all hypothetic. This is like a hypothetical drawing, like a sketch, if you will. How do we find out if there's life in venus's clouds? Well, the great thing about venus is it's not really too far away.

Venus is the hottest, scariest planet in the solar system, but billions of years ago it may have been a lot like Earth, complete with an ocean of water. So, how did Venus go to hell? And could Earth be next?

This is the final episode of our four-part series, Lost Worlds, and it originally ran on December 1, 2021.

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