A new study claims that astronomers have spotted an active volcano on Venus, confirming beliefs the planet isn't dead yet.
In the early 1990s, NASA’s Magellan spacecraft captured data from Venus, proving that volcanoes still existed on the planet’s surface. Now, a new look at that data says they have spotted at least one active volcano on Venus, and that future missions to the planet could provide even more proof that Venus isn’t dead yet. . According to those findings, an active volcano on the surface of Venus is still changing the planet’s surface by pouring out lava through lava vents located around it.
But the researchers had to be careful with the data they were working with. Because the data from Magellan is 30 years old, they wanted to make sure it wasn’t caused by the spacecraft itself. To judge this, they picked out a location featured in multiple data sets and then moved them so that they would be looking down upon the possibly active volcano on Venus. By doing this, they discovered that a volcano vent near Maat Mons appeared more circular in one image.
It’s an intriguing discovery that continues to provide more data for scientists to dig into, especially as NASA and others plan
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