The planet Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love, but perhaps Vulcan, the god of volcanoes, would be a closer match to this fiery world
on Venus, after measuring the change in size of a volcanic vent over a period of eight months in the Maat Mons volcano system, also from Magellan radar data.
Herrick and his team found this changing vent by manually combing through images of areas that they thought were more likely to contain volcanic activity. A map might make that process less time consuming, by showing patterns in where volcanoes are grouped close together, for example.Voyage across the galaxy and beyond with our space newsletter every month.
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