Venus has a massive lava tube

The cave was found through a new look at 1990s data from orbiting radar

Illustration of the surface of Venus and the lava tube

The collapsed roof of the lava tube was detected through a reanalysis of orbital radar data from NASA's Magellan probe in the 1990s.

RSLab/University of Trento

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