Venus has extra volcanoes than we thought – and this map exhibits the place they’re
Venus has lengthy been often called a house to loads of volcanoes - however not fairly this many.A brand new map of the red-hot planet, which has a floor temperature of about 450C (842F), reveals there are round 85,000 scattered over its panorama.
That's nearly 50 instances greater than previous surveys had counted.
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The triangles characterize volcanoes of varied sizes, the black dots are deformed volcanoes, and the yellow squares are groupings of volcanoes in 'volcanic fields'. Pic: Rebecca Hahn, Washington University in St Louis
The large map, printed alongside analysis within the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, was constructed utilizing radar pictures taken by NASA's Magellan spacecraft.Previous resear...