Cylindrical Mountains on Venus
Explanation:
What could cause a huge cylindrical mountain to rise from the surface of Venus?
Such features that occur on Venus are known as coronas.
Pictured here in the foreground is 500-kilometer wide Atete Corona found in a region
of
Venus known as the
Galindo.
The
featured image
was created by combining multiple
radar maps of the region to form a computer-generated
three-dimensional perspective.
The series of
dark rectangles that cross the image from top to bottom were created by the
imaging procedure and are not real.
The origin of massive coronas remains a
topic of research
although
speculation holds they result from volcanism.
Studying Venusian coronas help scientists better understand the
inner structure of both
Venus and
Earth.
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