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Recent Hotspot Volcanism on Venus from VIRTIS Emissivity Data

Drossart, Pierre; Piccioni, Giuseppe; Helbert, Joern +5 more

The questions of whether Venus is geologically active and how the planet has resurfaced over the past billion years have major implications for interior dynamics and climate change. Nine “hotspots”—areas analogous to Hawaii, with volcanism, broad topographic rises, and large positive gravity anomalies suggesting mantle plumes at depth—have been id…