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For nearly 50 years, Venus’s clouds have been understood as droplets of concentrated sulfuric acid—but a 2025 reinterpretation of data inadvertently collected by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Large Probe in 1978 suggests their aerosols may instead be about 60 p
New analysis of 1978 NASA probe data challenges the long-held belief that Venusian clouds consist solely of concentrated sulfuric acid.