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                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                               2020 October 27
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                          Venusian Volcano Imagined
        Illustration Credit: [3]NASA, [4]JPL-Caltech, [5]Peter Rubin

   Explanation: What would an erupting volcano on Venus look like?
   [6]Evidence of [7]currently active volcanoes on [8]Venus was
   [9]announced earlier this year with the unexplained warmth of regions
   thought to contain only ancient volcanoes. Although large scale
   [10]images of Venus have been [11]taken with radar, thick [12]sulfuric
   acid clouds would inhibit the taking of optical light vistas.
   Nevertheless, an artist's reconstruction of a [13]Venusian volcano
   erupting is featured. [14]Volcanoes could play an important role in a
   [15]life cycle on Venus as they could push chemical foods into the
   cooler upper atmosphere where hungry microbes might float.
   [16]Pictured, the plume from an erupting volcano billows upwards, while
   a [17]vast lava field covers part of the hot and cracked [18]surface of
   Earth's overheated twin. The [19]possibility of airborne microbial
   Venusians is [20]certainly exciting, but [21]currently
   [22]controversial.

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   4. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
   5. https://www.vice.com/en/article/vvzbx9/the-most-metal-asteroid-artist
   6. https://newsroom.usra.edu/scientists-find-evidence-that-venus-has-active-volcanoes
   7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200114.html
   8. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/
   9. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/1/eaax7445
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100801.html
  11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap960624.html
  12. https://youtu.be/pgTRZjd_HSg
  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_on_Venus
  14. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/science/venus-volcanoes-active.html
  15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Venus
  16. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2020-128
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040323.html
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031130.html
  19. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4
  20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200915.html
  21. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07817
  22. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09761
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