![Venus as seen by Akatsuki](http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/physicsoutreach/wp-content/uploads/sites/236/2020/09/Venus_Akatsuki-300x300.png)
Venus as seen by the Akatsuki spacecraft.
Dr William Bains, of Cardiff University and MIT, is part of a team who have developed a model that helps explain how microbial life might make the atmosphere of Venus more hospitable. On the way, it also solves a few other mysteries about our nearest planetary neighbour’s atmosphere. From an excess of water and oxygen to the disappearance of sulphur dioxide, and potentially non-spherical particles, could this be the solution that solves all of the mysteries?