Surface changes observed on a Venusian volcano during the Magellan mission

@article{Herrick2023SurfaceCO,  title={Surface changes observed on a Venusian volcano during the Magellan mission},  author={Robert R. Herrick and Scott Hensley},  journal={Science},  year={2023},  volume={379},  pages={1205 - 1208},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:257571905}}
Venus has a geologically young surface, but it is unknown whether it has ongoing active volcanism. From 1990 to 1992, the Magellan spacecraft imaged the planet’s surface, using synthetic aperture radar. We examined volcanic areas on Venus that were imaged two or three times by Magellan and identified an ~2.2-square-kilometer volcanic vent that changed shape in the 8-month interval between two radar images. Additional volcanic flows downhill from the vent are visible in the second-epoch images… 

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