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Università di Trento

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Caption

Venus skylight in the Nyx Mons region reveals a subsurface cave, hypothesized to be a lava tube. The feature was identified through analysis of radar images acquired by the SAR instrument aboard the NASA Magellan mission.

 

Credit

RSLab, University of Trento

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