Scientists claim 'Active volcanoes on Venus' ahead of ISRO's Shukrayaan mission in 2023

Gaining a deeper understanding into Earth's neighbouring planet, a research team led by Universities Research Association (USRA) has found out that Venus may have active volcaes still present, according to international reports. study published in Science vances on Friday has stated that team has concluded so due to presence of lava flowing on Venus surface which may be only a few years old. This would make Venus only or planet in our solar system apart from Earth with active volcaes.

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Active volcaes in Venus?

Explaining implications of research, USRA scientist Dr. Justin Filiberto said, "If Venus is indeed active today, it would make a great place to visit to better understand interiors of planets. For example, we could study how planets cool and why Earth and Venus have active volcanism, but Mars does t. Future missions should be able to see se flows and changes in surface and provide concrete evidence of its activity," at a conference in Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI).

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How did y conclude about active volcaes in Venus?

team reportedly recreated Venus' hot atmosphere in ir lab to study how  Venusian minerals react and change over time. ir results showed an abundant mineral in basalt — olivine — reacts rapidly with atmosphere and within weeks becomes coated with iron oxide minerals – magnetite and hematite, according to study. scientists found that this conversion would take a few years and hence y suggested that lava flow was recent and hence would mean that volcaes were active on Venus.

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While team has stated that future missions will be able to explore furr, India's own mission Shukrayaan-1 is scheduled to hot planet in 2023. ISRO h invited proposals from international scientific community to carry out vel experiments on its planned Venus mission in 2018. ISRO aims to explore in its Venus mission include surface, subsurface, and atmosphere of planet, as well as its interaction with Sun.

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