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Lava may be flowing from Venus volcano

New mapping, simulations point to cause of planet’s hot spot

Idunn Mons on Venus

HOT SPOT  Idunn Mons, a 2.5-kilometer-high volcano on Venus seen in this map from the Magellan spacecraft, might be currently active, a new study suggests.

JPL-Caltech/NASA, ESA

By Christopher Crockett

- More than 2 years ago

PASADENA, Calif. — Venus is already known to host a hellish landscape with stifling temperature and suffocating pressure — and, a new study now hints, possibly rivers of lava oozing out of a volcano.