a huge shield volcano that rises three miles above the surrounding plains. Planet Venus from NASA, Magellan Program. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) “The estimates of how often ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Impact features on Venus may have been staring us in the face all along That's the message from a ...
A new paper in JGR Planets provides the most comprehensive map of all volcanic edifices on Venus ever compiled. The dataset was created by planetary scientists Paul Byrne and Rebecca Hahn at ...
The three largest volcanoes of Mars - Olympus Mons, Alba Patera and Arsia Mons - are profiled, amongst others. The strange world of Venus, revealed by radar, opens our perspective of volcanism to ...
That's the message from a team of planetary scientists, who have explained Venus' apparent dearth of large craters by discovering that impacts could have produced the mysterious "tesserae ...
Paul K. Byrne / Sean C. Solomon. A radar view of Lavinia Planitia, on Venus, where the planet's rocky outer layer has broken into blocks (purple) delineated by belts of tectonic structures (yellow ...
"Venus is our only Earth-sized neighbour and ... Artwork: Tracking down active volcanoes will involve repeat imaging in specific locations There was a time when the UK was going to provide the ...