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"Using these maps as a guide, our results show that Venus may be far more volcanically active than previously thought," said Davide Sulcanese, who led the study, in a news release from NASA.

New software let scientists re-examine old radar images, providing some of the strongest evidence yet that volcanoes continue to reshape the hellish planet. By Robin George Andrews Witnessing the ...

Herrick's research adds Venus to the small pool of volcanically active bodies in our solar system. "We can now say that Venus is presently volcanically active in the sense that there are at least ...

The relatively low resolution of Magellan’s data and Venus’ enormous land area means that it took painstaking effort to uncover these few signs of active volcanism. But Byrne suspects they ...

The Magellan spacecraft mapped Venus using radar 30 years ago Now ... provides the first solid evidence Venus may still be volcanically active The planet has a number of volcanoes, but it was ...

The active crater sits high on Maat Mons, one of Venus’ largest volcanoes whose summit is 5 km above the surrounding plains. Most planetary scientists already expected Venus to be volcanically ...

"I think all planetary scientists agreed that Venus is still volcanically active in the sense that we knew future eruptions would occur, but we did not know whether the times between eruptions ...

In 2021 EnVision and VERITAS were selected for launch, thereby becoming the best bet at finding active volcanism on Venus. But Herrick remained impatient. “I had lots of Zoom meetings where I ...

And that heat must escape somehow. Scientists have long thought that Venus should be volcanically active. “We’ve just never had something we can point to. And now we do,” Byrne says.

This isn’t a scene from a science fiction novel—it’s Venus, our cosmic neighbor, and one of the most volcanically active worlds in the solar system. For centuries, Venus has been shrouded in ...