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13/ After all, we have demonstrated through our study of Mars over the decades that we are capable—as a scientific community, as a society, and as a civilization—of unraveling the mysteries of a nearby planet. Let’s do it again! /END

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12/ Finally: what an incredible opportunity we have before us today! I mean, how lucky are we that this finding was made on Venus, and not on an exoplanet!?

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11/ To be clear, that is worth celebrating, even if it’s not definitive.

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10/ That is how I think about today’s discovery. After all, the real impact of finding phosphine is not that there is definitely life. The real impact is that the probability that life exists in Venus’ atmosphere just went up—and maybe WAY up.

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9/ These kinds of findings are less satisfying, but they will often be more accurate.

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