¶Venus may have active volcanoes. A new study suggests Venus may have active volcanoes. Informed by a model of how volcanic olivine should react with the Venusian atmosphere to become coated with magnetite and hematite, the authors looked for and found those iron minerals in data from the ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft (whose mission ended in 2014 after lasting about 5 times longer than planned). The presence of these minerals suggests fresh lava flows on the planet’s surface. The only current spacecraft at Venus is JAXA’s Akatsuki orbiter. However, several missions are under development including India’s Shukrayaan-1 (possibly launching in 2023) and Russia’s Venera-D (2026 or 2031), with additional proposed missions from NASA (pdf) and others.