Scientists may have observed the incidence of disease within Venus

The team used Magellan’s experiments, which revolved around Venus from 1990 to 1994 and filmed the surface with radar. The observations have already been reviewed, but this new study uses a new type of computer that is able to detect global faults that show large circuits of the lithosphere. These pieces, whatever the size of Alaska, seem to fight as lazily as ice on a lake or in the ocean.

This is in stark contrast to the current type of global tectonics. But if confirmed, it could be evidence of water temperature and the melting point inside Venus – something that has never been seen before. The authors speculate similarities with the Earth’s atmosphere during the Archean Eon period (2.5 to 4 billion years ago) suggesting that the formation of the “carrier ice” could have evolved from the early mudslides of Venus when the planet was similar to Earth.

The move “is spreading across the Venus region, and is in defiance of a well-known style of global tectonics,” says Sean Solomon, a research scientist at Columbia University and co-author of the study.

These findings only add to the excitement in the background the new mission of Venus recently approved by NASA and the European Space Agency. Solomon says he and his team hope that all three will be able to provide “the information necessary to test the ideas we have outlined.” These missions will not be ready to start the project at the end of the decade, so let’s expect the excitement to last in the next few years.