If there is life on venus, it could be in those clouds. We have bacteria that are wept up from the surface and they spend about a week up in the clouds. Most of them are inside cloud droplets. They just get swept up into the sky and live there for a little bit and then come back down. But if they go too far down, then life will die from high temperatures.
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, what killed Venus? And could Earth be next?
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