00:03Venus is one of those places humans will likely never step foot.
00:07That's because surface temperatures on the yellow-hued planet are upwards of 900 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:13And oh yeah, scientists now say it likely has around 50 times the number of volcanoes we previously thought.
00:18Back in the 90s, the Magellan spacecraft conducted a flyby of Venus.
00:22But now researchers have reanalyzed those images and finally counted the volcanoes found in them.
00:27The researchers from Washington University in St. Louis say they've counted some 85,000 volcanoes all over Venus's surface.
00:35They add this will tell us a whole lot more about the composition of our neighboring planet,
00:38as well as where there might be larger sources of magma and predict future volcanoes.
00:42This is a map the researchers published as part of their report in the journal JGR Planets.
00:47The map shows where all the volcanoes were identified, as well as their size,
00:51with as many as 100 of them being wider than 60 miles in diameter.
00:55And in fact, the researchers say they now have a better idea of how many volcanoes are on Venus than
01:00Earth,
01:01as most of our planet is covered in oceans, and many of them are likely hiding underwater.
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