A volcano on Venus was spotted erupting in decades-old images
A new look at old data reveals what scientists have long suspected about our sister planet
![An image of Maat Mons on Venus based on data from spacecraft. A yellow mountain rises up on a black background with a brown area in the foreground.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/031523_lg_volcanism-venus_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Venusian volcano Maat Mons, shown in a view based on data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft and the Soviet Venera spacecraft, seems to have erupted in the 1990s while Magellan was watching.
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