NASA's Magellan Data Uncovers Active Volcanoes on Venus

Direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity has been observed on the surface of Venus for the first time, after scientists studied archival radar images taken by NASA's Magellan mission in the 1990s. The discovery of a volcanic vent changing shape and increasing significantly in size in less than a year sets the stage for NASA's VERITAS mission to investigate Venus from surface to core to understand how a rocky planet about the same size as Earth took a very different path, developing into a world covered in volcanic plains and deformed terrain hidden beneath a thick, hot, toxic atmosphere.