{"id":215129,"date":"2025-05-31T05:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/virtual-model-of-a-venusian-pancake-dome-shows-it-likely-formed-due-to-elastic-lithosphere-and-dense-lava"},"modified":"2025-05-31T05:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:11:22","slug":"virtual-model-of-a-venusian-pancake-dome-shows-it-likely-formed-due-to-elastic-lithosphere-and-dense-lava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/virtual-model-of-a-venusian-pancake-dome-shows-it-likely-formed-due-to-elastic-lithosphere-and-dense-lava","title":{"rendered":"Virtual model of a Venusian pancake dome shows it likely formed due to elastic lithosphere and dense lava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virtual-model-of-a-venusian-pancake-dome-shows-it-likely-formed-due-to-elastic-lithosphere-and-dense-lava2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A trio of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Universit\u00e9 de Lyon, and Arizona State University, respectively, has found that a likely reason flat pancake-like volcanoes form on Venus\u2019 surface is the planet has an elastic lithosphere and volcanoes that emit dense lava.<\/p>\n<p>In their paper <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2024JE008571\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets<\/i>, M. E. Borrelli, C. Michaut, and J. G. O\u2019Rourke describe how they used data collected by NASA\u2019s Magellan mission in the 1990s, to simulate how one such flat-topped <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dome<\/a> could have come about and what they learned by doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary scientists have been wondering for many years how the oddly shaped volcanic domes came to exist on the surface of Venus. With their flat shapes and steep sides, they are unlike any volcanoes seen on Earth\u2014they look much more like pancakes than cones. To learn more, the research trio took a unique approach. They attempted to simulate how just one of them might have come about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Universit\u00e9 de Lyon, and Arizona State University, respectively, has found that a likely reason flat pancake-like volcanoes form on Venus\u2019 surface is the planet has an elastic lithosphere and volcanoes that emit dense lava. In their paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215129","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}