New analysis of the planet’s surface suggests an eruption happened in modern times.
concluded in 1994; it was the first spacecraft to image the entire surface of Venus, an achievement that is paying off with the latest discovery. Over the last few years, Robert Herrick, a planetary scientist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and the study’s lead author, sifted through countless radar images taken by Magellan.
Eventually, an image stuck out: a caldera on Maat Mons, a volcano on Venus taller than Mount Everest., Herrick then brought the data to Scott Hensley, a radar specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who corroborated Herrick’s suspicions: that the altered caldera was evidence of volcanic activity. “We can rule out that it’s a dying planet,” Herrick told Science.
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