News Planetary Science Venus might be as volcanically active as Earth Decades-old data reveal signs of relatively fresh lava flows The slopes of Sif Mons, a large shield volcano on Venus, show signs of relatively recent lava flows (arrow) in archival data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, which orbited the planet in the early 1990s. David Sulcanese/D’Annunzio University Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Adam Mann May 27, 2024 at 11:00 am Present-day volcanism on Venus might be far more pervasive than previously believed.