"Hotspot" Volcanoes on Venus

This figure shows the volcanic peak Idunn Mons (at 46°S, 214.5°E) in Imdr Regio. The
background image is radar data from the Magellan mission. Bright areas are either rough
or have an eastward facing slope, or both; dark areas are smooth. The radar is draped on
the Magellan topography, shown with a vertical exaggeration of 30x. The summit stands
about 2.5 km above the plains and has a diameter of ~200 km.
Image courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA; image created by Ryan Ollerenshaw and Eric
DeJong of the Solar System Visualization Group, JPL.

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