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Space
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Keith Cooper

Venus' 'missing' giant impact craters may be hiding in plain sight

A large planet hued in vibrant oranges, yellows, and dark browns.

Impact features on Venus may have been staring us in the face all along

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" formations on the Venusian surface.

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