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Università di Trento

Image 3

Caption

Magellan radar image of Venus (Magellan’s Radar System - Full Resolution Radar Left-Look Mosaic, framelet ID: fl29n047) displaying several pit chains and the identified skylight, marked as A, potentially providing access to the subsurface (i.e., empty void). The white arrow indicates the radar illumination direction

Credit

Image taken from the paper “L. Carrer, E. Diana, L. Bruzzone, “Evidence of a Very Large and Accessible Lava Tube on the Venus Subsurface,” Nature Communications, 2026, doi 10.1038/s41467-026-68643-6”

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