Scientists have made a new discovery about Venus thanks to old images

New proof suggests that there’s geological exercise taking place on Venus.

The invention has been made due to some outdated photos of Venus, which scientists declare present proof of current volcanic exercise.

NASA’s Magellan spacecraft visited Venus within the Nineties and captured the photographs.

The beautiful photos reveal that over eight months, a volcanic vent elevated in dimension and altered form.

NASA printed these new findings on its official web site.

Robert Herrick, a analysis professor on the College of Alaska Fairbanks and member of the science group who led the search of the archival information, admitted he was stunned to make such a giant discovery.

“NASA’s choice of the VERITAS mission impressed me to search for current volcanic exercise in Magellan information,” he mentioned.

“I didn’t actually anticipate to achieve success, however after about 200 hours of manually evaluating the photographs of various Magellan orbits, I noticed two photos of the identical area taken eight months aside exhibiting telltale geological adjustments attributable to an eruption.”

Prof Herrick additionally revealed how he was capable of inform exercise had occurred primarily based on some photos from 30 years in the past.

“Solely a few the simulations matched the imagery, and the probably state of affairs is that volcanic exercise occurred on Venus’ floor throughout Magellan’s mission,” he mentioned.

“Whereas this is only one information level for a complete planet, it confirms there may be trendy geological exercise.”

That is notably attention-grabbing as a result of Venus is Earth’s closest planetary neighbour.

Venus has additionally been dubbed Earth’s “sister planet” as a result of they’re related in dimension and mass.

Venus is the second planet from the Solar whereas Earth is the third.

To place that in perspective, it might nonetheless take nearly 4 months to journey from Earth to Venus.