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When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But ...

The image was taken at 13:57:56 UTC by the Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 3, when the spacecraft was 1573 km from Venus. Closest approach of 552 km took place shortly before, at 13: ...

Then, they compared these models against gravity and topography observations collected by NASA's Magellan probe, which spent several years orbiting and studying Venus in the 1990s.

They tested different formation scenarios and compared their results with gravity and topography data collected by NASA's Magellan spacecraft, which mapped Venus in the early 1990s.

Citations G. Cascioli et al. A spectrum of tectonic processes at coronae on Venus revealed by gravity and topography. Science Advances. Vol. 11, May 14, 2025. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adt5932.

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So Magellan’s spatial mapping of Venus’s gravity can “see” if there’s hot, light material under a corona—a sign that rock is actively rising up from the mantle below.

Magellan zipped to Venus at 71,000 mph (113,600 km/h), traveling 1.5 times around the Sun and covering 788 million miles (1.2 billion kilometers). Compared to the launch issues, the cruise was ...