Although this activity may not be due to the movement of tectonic plates, as is the case on Earth, it is possible that the processes occurring on the two planets are similar.
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This finding depicts Venus as a very living planet, in contrast to the old view of it.
Launch page BBC, Monday (5/7/2021), because it was considered interesting, Europe even launched a spacecraft, EnVision, to map radar and collect spectroscopic measurements of the surface and atmosphere of Venus.
Meanwhile, NASA sent two space probes, Veritas and DaVinci+, to Venus , towards the end of the decade.
“We have identified a previously unrecognized pattern of tectonic deformation on Venus, driven by interior motion like on Earth,” said Paul Byrne, professor of planetary science at North Carolina State University.
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“Although different from the tectonic movements we see on Earth, this remains evidence of motion from within the planet as seen from its surface,” continued Byrne.
Byrne and his colleagues have detected signs of a number of rock crustal blocks in low-lying areas Venus which rotate and move relatively sideways to each other.
They compared this seemingly relatively recent activity to the activity of icebergs pushing against each other in the waters of Earth’s polar regions.
Richard Ghail, the European Space Agency’s principal investigator for the EnVision mission, said “This research shows that we have a lot to learn from Venus and that there is a much wider spectrum of surface mobility than just plate tectonics.”
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The researchers used data collected by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, launched in 1989 and active until 1994, to map the surface structure, which they named “campi”, from the Latin for “field”, “campus”.
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