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Venus Express

Is The Venus Express Probe Watching Volcanoes Erupt On The Planet As We Speak?

By Ian Chant 2012-12-03T09:55:14-05:00.

Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) are seeing increased levels of sulfur dioxide in the already rather poisonous atmosphere of Venus. There are a couple of possible explanations for the spike in levels of the gas, but right now, we're going to get excited about the coolest possibility, which is that the ESA's Venus Express probe is seeing the results of some not insignificant volcanic activity on the surface of the planet.