Show Carbon Dioxide in Venus' Venus Atmosphere Held Possible Proof of Life There I By Dy F F. F B. B COLTON Associated Press Science Writer W WASHINGTON June 8 Possible 8 evidence of life on the planet Venus- Venus discovery that carbon dioxide is probably present in large amounts amounts' In the planets planet's atmosphere was atmosphere was an announced announced announced an- an today by the Carnegie Institution institution of Washington Carbon dioxide is essential to life lie lieas as we know It on earth especially plant life It is incidentally the gas used in making soda water Discovery Discovery ery cry of the gas on Venus is no sure indication that life exists there the announcement said but does docs show that thal one of the conditions essential to life seems to be present The discovery is more moro evidence of ot the close resemblance between the earth and Venus which sometimes Is called the earths twin sister al iii- iii though a 8 little smaller Venus ha has about aboul four fifths the mass or weight of the earth Is two-thirds two as far from the sun and has a gravity pull about abou four fifths as powerful It is believed believe to have a solid surface Discovery of the probable presence of carbon dioxide on Venus wa waS made mad by Dr Walter S. S Adams and Dr Theodore Theodore Theodore Theo Theo- dore Dunham at the Carnegie Institutions institutions institution's tion's observatory at Mount Wilson California This discovery i if fully Cully substantiated substantiated is of ot marked scientific interest for two reasons said the Carnegie announcement It will have been th the first time a gas of any kind has been Identified in the spectra of any of ou our planets and nod it indicates that one o othe of the essentials to life as we ve know it o othis on this earth may exist in the atmosphere atmosphere atmos atmos- phere of ot Venus |