VENUS MISSIONS

NASA is still trying to decide how much it can support a group of Venus probes, according to its planetary science head. The agency has been in talks with the European Space Agency about a joint mission that will map Venus’s surface from orbit. A recent budget bill gave the planetary division $2. 54

Venus, often dubbed Earth's evil twin, is a world full of oddities. Among its many quirks are the so-called pancake domes. These are giant, circular volcanoes that look like giant, cooked pancakes. For a long time, scientists thought these domes were made by slow-moving, thick lava. But new findings