Study Finds Venus’ ‘Squishy’ Outer Shell May Be Resurfacing the Planet

The research uses archival NASA data to show that Venus may be losing heat from geologic activity in regions called coronae, possibly like early tectonic activity on Earth. Earth and Venus are rocky planets of about the same size and rock chemistry, so they should be losing their internal heat to space at about the …

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