Venus might be as volcanically active as Earth
Decades-old data reveal signs of relatively fresh lava flows
![Sif Mons on Venus with recent lava flow (arrow)](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/052424_am_venus-volcanism_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
The slopes of Sif Mons, a large shield volcano on Venus, show signs of relatively recent lava flows (arrow) in archival data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, which orbited the planet in the early 1990s.
David Sulcanese/D’Annunzio University