{"id":215081,"date":"2025-05-30T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/magellan-mission-reveals-possible-tectonic-activity-on-venus"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:05:45","slug":"magellan-mission-reveals-possible-tectonic-activity-on-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/magellan-mission-reveals-possible-tectonic-activity-on-venus","title":{"rendered":"Magellan mission reveals possible tectonic activity on Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magellan-mission-reveals-possible-tectonic-activity-on-venus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus\u2019s surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research based on data gathered more than 30 years ago by NASA\u2019s Magellan mission.<\/p>\n<p>On Earth, the planet\u2019s surface is continually renewed by the constant shifting and recycling of massive sections of crust, called tectonic plates, that float atop a viscous interior. Venus doesn\u2019t have tectonic plates, but its surface is still being deformed by molten material from below.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking to better understand the underlying processes driving these deformations, the researchers studied a type of feature called a corona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus\u2019s surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research based on data gathered more than 30 years ago by NASA\u2019s Magellan mission. On Earth, the planet\u2019s surface is continually renewed by the constant shifting and recycling of massive sections of crust, called tectonic plates, that float [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215081","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}