A new insight into the workings of the atmosphere of Venus has been found by scientists using new methods.
Venus is covered in a thick cloud of acid. The clouds reflect most of the sun's light and make it the most visible object in the sky. There is an absorber of ultraviolet light in the atmosphere.
A new pathway for creating disulfur within the clouds of Venus has been suggested by a team of scientists.
There are a lot of weird facts about Venus.
The formation of other sulfur allotropes and the formation of eight sulfur atoms within the Venusian atmosphere can be traced back to disulfur. Sulfur particles can absorb light.
Sulfur dioxide broken down by sunlight to form sulfur monoxide and disulfur monoxide provides a quicker pathway to forming disulfur than the combining of separate sulfur atoms.
Sulfur, chlorine and oxygen are some of the chemicals found in the Venusian atmosphere and can be difficult to work with.
"For the first time, we are using computational chemistry techniques to determine which reactions are most important, rather than waiting for laboratory measurements to be done or using highly inaccurate estimates of the rate of un studied reactions," said James Lyons, a senior scientist and author of the paper.
Lyons said that the approach for studying the atmosphere of Venus was a new one.
It is thought that sulfur chemistry is involved in the absorber. The sulfur formed from disulfur has been proposed to be a UV absorber.
Computational models used to determine possible reactions could open the door to using the approach, according to the team.
The paper was published in a journal.
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