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Why is there a concentration of water vapor and Venus is atmosphere around the Terra Aphrodite Mountains region?

Asked by Brian_Ghilliotti (328points) April 22nd, 2017 from iPhone

Does this indicate a large source of underground water in that area of Venus?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2016-07-lies-beneath-venus-surface-revealed.amp

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Brian_Ghilliotti's avatar

Meant say “Why is the there a large concentration of water vapor in Venus’ atmosphere around…”. Typo due to text speak

Yellowdog's avatar

The clouds of Venus are the only place where life is possible.

There could be life in the clouds of Venus, on Mars now or in former epics, and life could be even possible on Jupiter’s moon Europa or Titan, under the ice the moving waters and ocean vents are quite nice, but without sunlight.

You obviously know more already than me or the average reader on Fluther. I think there is probably a 50/50 chance that life will be found eventually somewhere else in our solar system but it will be extremely basic and primitive and not very interesting. Nothing as advanced as Jellies and more like slime or very primitive single-cell organisms.

Science Fiction can be plausible, however—and maybe more satisfying. Venus, Mars, and Phaeton (Murdok or various other names for the Marslike planet that is now the Asteroid Belt) could have had life, even fairly advanced, before conditions radically changed for whatever reason. It can be made plausible for fiction. But real life in our solar system beyond Earth I’d doubt anything more than very basic and simple organisms.

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BTW I took astronomy in college—about four semesters – and I have to aver that to me the fact that these planets exist—and many other fascinating things in this universe— but are completely LIFELESS and many never have and never will be seen or visited by sentient beings or any life at all— the cold, sterile, lifeless but awesome universe—to me is more awesome, somehow, than finding something like us.

Patty_Melt's avatar

Not underground, but probably above ground. Surface viewing of Venus is obstructed by the dense clouds.
The movement of these clouds is quite slow, and the distance the water is carried is anybody’s guess at this time. According to the article, the water content is viewable when the winds ripple upward at the mountains, but that is much like the Sierra Nevada. Moisture is brought on winds from the Pacific, travel upward at the mountain range, then mostly falls onto the mountains, some passing on over, rebuilding, and dumping further on mountains in Colorado and Utah.
The article provided simply expresses that moisture can be seen in that mountain region because the winds carry it upward there, in a viewable range. It is still uncertain how much water is the source, or where the source is located, so far as the article would suggest.

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