Herrick's research adds Venus to the small pool of volcanically active bodies in our solar system. "We can now say that Venus is presently volcanically active in the sense that there are at least ...

The landscape includes vast plains, highland regions, and numerous volcanic features like shield volcanoes and lava domes. The Sif Mons area on Venus with the active volcanic region highlighted in ...

New software let scientists re-examine old radar images, providing some of the strongest evidence yet that volcanoes continue to reshape the hellish planet. By Robin George Andrews Witnessing the ...

The active crater sits high on Maat Mons, one of Venus’ largest volcanoes whose summit is 5 km above the surrounding plains. Most planetary scientists already expected Venus to be volcanically ...

Last year, a team announced that they had spotted a volcanic ... s data and Venus’ enormous land area means that it took painstaking effort to uncover these few signs of active volcanism.

"I think all planetary scientists agreed that Venus is still volcanically active in the sense that we knew future eruptions would occur, but we did not know whether the times between eruptions ...

WASHINGTON - Venus appears to be more volcanically active than previously known, according to scientists, whose new analysis of decades-old radar images has spotted evidence of eruptions at two ...

Researchers scouring decades-old spacecraft data have found clear signs of recent volcanic activity on Venus. The findings, published in the journal Science, reveal not only that the planet's ...

The Magellan spacecraft mapped Venus using radar 30 years ago Now ... provides the first solid evidence Venus may still be volcanically active The planet has a number of volcanoes, but it was ...

Venus is still alive. Scientists studying data sent home by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the early 1990s say they have spotted volcanic activity on Venus. The discovery, announced in a paper ...

“We can now say that Venus is presently volcanically active in the sense that there are at least a few eruptions per year,” said Robert Herrick, a research professor at University of Alaska ...

So it's clear that Venus is volcanically active, but it's not clear exactly how active. HERRICK: The time between eruptions could be months, years or tens of thousands of years. DANIEL ...