The Largest Volcanoes In Venus Are The Most Active Similar To Earth

Jupiter and Venus create spectacle view as they appear extremely close, almost touch one another over the Dutch night sky, but they are 600 million km apart. Vent collapses of this scale on Earth have always been accompanied by nearby volcanic eruptions. NICOLAS ECONOMOU/SWNS TALKER

Venus is volcanically active – just like Earth, scientists discovered after a lava lake was found on the fiery second planet from the sun.

The study in the publication in Science adds Venus to the small pool of volcanically active worlds in our solar system.