Geologically Recent Areas as One Key Target for Identifying Active Volcanism on Venus
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The recently selected NASA VERITAS and DAVINCI missions, the ESA EnVision, Roscosmos Venera-D will open a new era in exploration of Venus. One key targets future orbiting situ investigations Venus is identification volcanically active areas on planet. study characterized by recent or ongoing volcano-tectonic activity can inform us how volcanism tectonism are currently evolving Following this target, Brossier et al. (2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099765) extend successful approach methodology used previous works to Ganis Chasma Atla Regio. Here we comment main results published discuss important implications their work for investigation Their add further lines evidence indicating possibly
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1944-8007', '0094-8276']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gl101813