{"id":159548,"date":"2023-03-04T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/venus-may-have-a-bizarro-version-of-a-vital-earth-phenomenon"},"modified":"2023-03-04T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T23:22:18","slug":"venus-may-have-a-bizarro-version-of-a-vital-earth-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/venus-may-have-a-bizarro-version-of-a-vital-earth-phenomenon","title":{"rendered":"Venus May Have a Bizarro Version of a Vital Earth Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MAwtM_aq-1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Earth and Venus are approximately the same size, and both lose heat at about the same rate, the internal mechanisms that drive Earth\u2019s geologic processes differ from its neighbor. It is these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-022-01068-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Venusian geologic processes<\/a> that a team of researchers led by NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology hopes to learn more about as they discuss both the cooling mechanisms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/new-evidence-for-possible-life-on-venus\">Venus<\/a> and the potential processes behind it.<\/p>\n<p>The geologic processes that occur on Earth are primarily due to our planet having <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/tectonics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">tectonic plates<\/a> that are in constant motion from the heat escaping the core of the planet, which then rises through the mantle to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/pilbara-craton-in-australia-tells-us-how-earth-made-its-continents\">lithosphere<\/a>, or the rigid outer rocky layer, that surrounds it. Once this heat is lost to space, the uppermost region of the mantle cools, while the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/study.com\/academy\/lesson\/mantle-convection-facts-process-causes-earth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">mantle convection<\/a> moves and shifts the currently known 15 to 20 tectonic plates that make up the lithosphere. These tectonic processes are a big reason why the Earth\u2019s surface is constantly being reshaped. Venus, on the other hand, does not possess tectonic plates, so scientists have been puzzled as to how the planet loses heat and reshapes its surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor so long, we\u2019ve been locked into this idea that Venus\u2019 lithosphere is stagnant and thick, but our view is now evolving,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/study-finds-venus-squishy-outer-shell-may-be-resurfacing-the-planet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">said Dr. Suzanne Smrekar<\/a>, who is a senior research scientist at NASA JPL, and lead author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Earth and Venus are approximately the same size, and both lose heat at about the same rate, the internal mechanisms that drive Earth\u2019s geologic processes differ from its neighbor. It is these Venusian geologic processes that a team of researchers led by NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology hopes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}