A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity created by a lava flow, the first subsurface ...

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A collapsed lava tube detected in 30-year-old radar data from Venus may be part of a much wider network of underground caves.

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The discovery was made by re-analyzing radar data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft from the early 1990s. This finding confirms long-held theories about the existence of subsurface volcanic features on ...

NASA's Magellan orbiter launched from Florida in 1989 helped scientists discover a vast underground lava tube on Venus in a major first.

Scientists at the University of Trento have uncovered the first direct evidence of a subsurface feature beneath Venus: a massive underground lava tube on the most volcanically active planet in the ...