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Sharmila Kuthunur

Volcanoes on Venus might be erupting right now

An orange/yellow mountainous landscape beneath a thin black sky.

Evidence continues to assemble that Venus is more geologically active than previously thought.

Planetary scientists scouring decades-old data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft have found signs of lava flows coming from two volcanoes on Venus that erupted in the early 1990s. That was when Magellan orbited the hellish world overhead.

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