Modeling Study Provides New Details about Venus’ Crust

May 12, 2025 - 10:00
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Modeling Study Provides New Details about Venus’ Crust
An artist’s concept of active volcanoes on Venus, depicting a subduction zone where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior at the topographic trench. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Peter Rubin.

Planetary scientists expected the outermost layer of the crust of Earth’s hotter twin would grow thicker and thicker over time given its apparent lack of forces that would drive the crust back into the planet’s interior.

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