Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Active volcano on Venus !?

Incredible,you know that scientist already know of more than 1,000 volcanoes on the surface of Venus, Earth’s “sister” planet. A big question has been: Are they still active?
one of  their evidence comes from a lava flow in the planet’s northern hemisphere. The flow is hotter than the rocks around it, which means the lava might still be cooling off. Venus is a difficult planet to study from Earth because it is surrounded by thick clouds. Telescopes on Earth can’t see through these clouds, so the best information about Venus comes from spacecraft orbiting it.The scientists say the lava flow can’t be very old because if it were, it would have cooled off enough that Magellan wouldn’t have noticed the difference in microwaves.  
Now we just have to wait until that we are sure of the information!!!

1 comment:

  1. where would the lava go if there was an eruption on Venus

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