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Keith Cooper

No alien life needed: Dark streaks in Venus' atmosphere can be explained by iron minerals

Venus is seen against the blackness of space in this photo by a spacecraft.

New experiments may have solved one of Venus' biggest mysteries.

Astrochemists have found that iron-bearing minerals are potentially the mysterious ultraviolet-absorbing substance in the clouds that wrap around the ultra-hot second planet from the sun. 

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