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What Does It Mean When We Say That Venus Has an Evolving Surface?
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6/30/2025
Is Venus one big bubble?
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Despite being a veritable hellscape featuring the hottest temperatures in our solar system
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and an atmosphere that's poisonous to humans, Venus is actually the most Earth-like planet
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we know of. But there has always been one big difference. Experts don't believe that Venus
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has plate tectonics. And while that's still technically the case, they're adding an addition.
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Venus might have a squishy outer crust, or lithosphere as well. Looking at old data
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from the Magellan orbiter, scientists now say that our yellow neighbor likely has a much thinner
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crust than previously calculated. After examining these images closer, they realize that what they
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initially thought were impact craters are actually coronae, rings of crust that are pushed up by
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massive amounts of molten rock underneath, until they dome and eventually collapse in on themselves.
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This sort of turned a lot of what experts thought they knew about Venus on its head,
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as they didn't believe it was all that active. However, some 80% of the planet's surface is
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covered in volcanic rock, and it had to be coming from somewhere. And it turns out it could be from
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an ever-shifting surface caused by subterranean bubbling, with their researchers writing, quote,
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while Venus doesn't have Earth-style tectonics, these regions of thin lithosphere appear to be
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allowing significant amounts of heat to escape, similar to areas where new tectonic plates form
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on Earth's seafloor.
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