Stardust in the Clouds of Venus.

The thick atmosphere of Venus has been captured here by the Messenger space probe (Credit :  NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Venus has been hiding a secret for fifty years. Just below its main cloud deck sits a mysterious layer of haze that spacecraft first detected in the 1970s and nobody could explain where it came from. Now a research team in Japan has finally cracked it, and the answer comes from the last place most people would think to look!

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