ESA’s Venus Express has found the best evidence yet for active volcanism on Earth’s neighbour planet. Seeing the planet’s surface is extremely difficult due to its thick atmosphere, but ...

Venus, the second planet from the Sun, has long fascinated scientists and storytellers alike. Once imagined as a lush, ...

Search for Location and Extent of the Lava Flows. From 2006 until 2014 the ESA Venus Express probe was analyzing the atmosphere and surface of Earth’s twin planet.

Borelli said that finding diverse lava types on Venus would be interesting. "This can tell us about the planet's tectonic history, magmatic processes, and even the potential past presence of water." ...

In the early 1990’s for example, radar on the Magellan spacecraft detected what appeared to be fresh lava, and back in the early 1980’s Pioneer Venus documented SO2 levels nearly 50 times ...

In searching for craters on Venus, "We had been looking for big holes in the ground," Hansen said in a statement.And indeed, about 1,000 craters on Venus are already known.

They found that the lava flows previously dated at 250,000 years old actually contained olivine — proof that they were only a few years old. “It means that Venus is a lot more like Earth than ...

Many of Venus's 1,600 confirmed volcanoes are pancake domes, each covering dozens of miles but only half a mile tall. In 1993, researchers at Johns Hopkins University tried to nail down the domes ...

Recent investigations indicate that Venus is not a static, dead planet but one where processes such as recent lava flows, mineralogical weathering, and surface-atmosphere interactions contribute ...

But the Johns Hopkins study was built on the assumption that lava was cooling atop rigid ground. In 2021, scientists at Arizona State University, the California Institute of Technology, and the ...