If true, those robust cells may still be living in Venus' atmosphere. Some could have even conglomerated together, speckling the world with the organics we have long assumed are confined to ours.
At around 100 km, they would start sending back data to Persephone, waiting overhead. After its deployment mission was complete, Demeter itself would deorbit and start burning up in Venus' atmosphere.
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