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On the planet Venus, there are as many as 1,600 volcanoes. Are they as dangerous as volcanoes on Earth?
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Bobo.id – Friends, did you know that apart from di Earth, volcanoes can also be found on other planets?
Volcanoes can also be found on the planet Venus.
Not only one, there are recorded about 1,600 volcanoes on Venus, and all of them are active volcanoes.
From the data of active volcanoes recorded on Venus, the number is able to beat the number of active volcanoes on Earth, which are around 1,500 mountains.
The planet Venus has the most volcanoes in the Solar System.
So, is this active volcano on Venus easy to erupt with a certain period of time, like in Indonesia?
Let’s find out the facts together!
Volcanoes on Venus can erupt
Like most active volcanoes in general, volcanoes on the planet Venus can also erupt.
The European Space Agency’s Venus Express orbiter has proven that the planet Venus is geologically active.
It is known that Venus has a planetary temperature of up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit, but when a volcanic eruption occurs, the temperature can reach 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
The planet, dubbed the twin planet of Earth, also has a surface filled with mountains.
However, no one knows if the volcanoes on Venus have stopped erupting at this time.
Although the volcanoes on Venus are active volcanoes, scientists and researchers have not been able to find signs of plate tectonics there.
While on Earth, volcanoes are most commonly located at the boundaries of tectonic plates.
The Hottest Planet in the Solar System
The planet Venus, is known as the hottest planet in the Solar System.
Some of the factors that cause the planet Venus to be the hottest is a thick atmosphere which is also equipped with 1600 active volcanoes.
This combination is suspected by scientists to be the cause of all the water on the surface of the planet Venus to evaporate.
The heat comes from the temperature released when the volcano erupts or the heat that enters the surface is trapped by CO2 gas.
If on Earth, the heat trapped by CO2 gas can cause global warming, the heat on Venus can provide a terrible natural greenhouse effect.
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Sunlight reaches the surface of Venus in less than 6 minutes since it is released on the surface of the Sun.
This is why the planet Venus is red, and its surface looks like it’s on fire.
Venus has high-temperature magma that erupts to the surface resulting in effusive volcanic eruptions in the form of lava flows.
An effusive eruption is the opposite of an explosive eruption, meaning that lava flows towards the Earth’s surface without an explosion.
Well, that’s a fact about the planet Venus and the volcano that is there.
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