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Massive Venus Lava Tube Detected Using Data From NASA’s Long-Defunct Magellan Spacecraft


NASA’s Magellan Mission to Venus is the gift the keeps on giving, providing Italian researchers with the first solid detection of a massive subsurface lava tube on Venus. They detail their findings in a new paper appearing in the journal *Nature Communications*.

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