NASA discovered evidence of life on Venus in 1978, a scientist has claimed. Biochemist Rakesh Mogul said a probe picked up signs of phosphine during the Pioneer 13 mission to the 463C planet.British and American astronomers last month announced they had found the chemical - a sign of life - in its atmosphere.In an interview to Live Science, the academic at Cal Poly Pomona in California said: "When the [Nature Astronomy paper] came out, I immediately thought of the legacy mass spectra."Dr Mogul said his team made the finding while searching back through NASA's archives.Data was collected from the Large Probe Neutral Mass Spectrometer that was dropped into the atmosphere of Venus as part of the Pioneer 13 mission.He said analysis of the.
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