Astronomers find evidence that volcanoes on Venus might still be erupting
cosmosmagazine.com
Astronomers have found evidence of lava flows near volcanoes on the surface of Venus, suggesting the planet may still be volcanically active.
  • @jordanlundMEnglish
    8•6 months ago

    Reported as “wrong world”, but technically the only locational rule is that it not be internal US news… and it’s not…

    Probably more suited for News or Science, but fine…

    • Flying SquidOPMEnglish
      4•6 months ago

      I didn’t know where the appropriate place was. I didn’t know we had a science community to be honest.

      The report is amusing though.

  • @ZachariahEnglish
    12•6 months ago

    The discovery of volcanic lava flow in two different regions of Venus is published in Nature Astronomy. It supports previous evidence that Venus is still geologically active, and also suggests that volcanic activity may be greater and more widespread than previously thought.

    The difficulty in confirming volcanism on Venus is the planet’s dense atmosphere which obscures much of what is happening on the surface.

    But scientists were able to get a picture of activity by comparing images from when the Magellan spacecraft conducted global radar mapping in 1990 and 1992, with new images from 2023.