In searching for craters on Venus, "We had been looking for big holes in the ground," Hansen said in a statement.And indeed, about 1,000 craters on Venus are already known.

In a Magellan image dubbed the "Crater Farm" we see the curious layering of volcanic activity and impact craters on Venus. NASA/JPL Our Solar System is filled with interesting worlds that mankind ...

Some familiar processes are active on Venus, but the results are very different. Read the whole story ...

Three impact craters are displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus taken by NASA’s Magellan, the first deep space probe launched by a space shuttle.

July 17, 2006 A. pair of planetary geologists at Imperial College, London, studying Venus’ craters has thrown widely accepted theories on the planet’s volcanic past into question.. Computer ...

A study of a giant impact crater on Venus suggests that its lithosphere was too thick to have had Earth-like plate tectonics, at least for much of the past billion years. At some point between 300 ...

Because Venus lacks tectonic activity, it should be covered by old impact craters, but when scientists count these features, they find that the planet's surface looks quite young. You may like ...

Because of this, Venus also has a large amount of craters in "pristine" condition. This photo, taken by Magellan, shows a three-dimensional colored view of a crater farm on the planet’s surface. 4.