NASA’s Magellan Data Reveals Volcanic Activity on Venus

[Waspie_Dwarf]

NASA’s Magellan Data Reveals Volcanic Activity on Venus

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In a first, scientists have seen direct evidence of active volcanism on Earth’s twin, setting the stage for the agency’s VERITAS mission to investigate.

Direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity has been observed on the surface of Venus for the first time. Scientists made the discovery after poring over archival radar images of Venus taken more than 30 years ago, in the 1990s, by NASA’s Magellan mission. The images revealed a volcanic vent changing shape and increasing significantly in size in less than a year.

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[fred_mc]

I'm a bit surprised that they haven't found that out until now. I thought that it was already a known fact that Venus has volcanic activity.

[Waspie_Dwarf]

2 hours ago, fred_mc said:

I'm a bit surprised that they haven't found that out until now. I thought that it was already a known fact that Venus has volcanic activity.

It was know that there had been volcanic activity in the past. It was suspected, but not known for sure, that Venus is still  volcanically active. As the article says, this is the first direct evidence of current activity. 

[Jon the frog]

Venus is quite hard to survive when landing on. A giant pressure cookers. Mars is way more gentle and hospitable.

When the sun will become hotter, the earth will be a blazing inferno like Venus. Will be in 1 billion years, everything will be erased.

[Montello]

Venus is hell impoosible to landing there also lot of active vulcanos thundwrs pressure acid rainheat 465