Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Massive Venus Lava Tube Detected Using Data From NASA’s Long-Defunct Magellan Spacecraft

A lateral cross-sectional view illustrating the detected cave beneath the surface of Venus. Credit: RSLab, University of Trento

NASA’s Magellan Mission to Venus is the gift the keeps on giving, providing Italian researchers with the first solid detection of a massive subsurface lava tube on Venus. They detail their findings in a new paper appearing in the journal Nature Communications.



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