{"id":464979,"date":"2026-02-10T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464979\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T03:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:08:07","slug":"radar-data-shows-cavernous-underground-lava-tube-on-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464979\/","title":{"rendered":"Radar data shows cavernous underground lava tube on Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    WASHINGTON \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA&#8217;s Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity created by a lava flow, the first subsurface feature ever detected on Earth&#8217;s planetary neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers said the radar data was consistent with a geological feature called a lava tube that is found in certain volcanic locations on Earth. Lava tubes also exist on the moon and are thought to be present on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Venus \u200bhas carefully guarded its secrets, with its surface shrouded by thick noxious clouds. But radar can peer through these clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA&#8217;s Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,307,797,17274,66,306,14838],"class_list":["post-464979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nasa","tag-planets","tag-satellites","tag-science","tag-space","tag-venus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}