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A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for features that characterize the surface of the solar system's hottest planet.

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Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

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