Data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft suggest that volcanic activity is widespread on Venus.
A new analysis of decades-old data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft findsNature Astronomy“This definitely is another step in the path to understanding Venus as a living, breathing world,” says planetary scientist Paul Byrne of Washington University in St. Louis, who was not involved in the work.
Planetary scientist David Sulcanese of D’Annunzio University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy, and his colleagues considered the possibility that these were artifacts in the radar data or the result of things like landslides. The features followed the local topography, suggesting they were really spilling across Venus’ surface, and occurred in fairly flat areas where landslides wouldn’t be expected, the researchers argue.
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