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Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award – NASA

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Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award – NASA

Suzanne Smrekar, geophysicist and principal investigator of the agency’s upcoming VERITAS mission to Venus, is NASA JPL’s first recipient of the prestigious award. Suzanne Smrekar, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, received the Fred Whipple Award on Monday, Dec. 9, in Washington at the fall meeting of the American … Read more

Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s Magellan Data – NASA

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Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s Magellan Data – NASA

An analysis of data from Magellan’s radar finds two volcanoes erupted in the early 1990s. This adds to the 2023 discovery of a different active volcano in Magellan data. Direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus has been observed for a second time. Scientists in Italy analyzed archival data from NASA’s Magellan mission … Read more