Giant craters on Venus ‘hiding in plain sight’

View larger. | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image of Haasttse-baad Tessera, cut by a set of unique concentric rings. You can see the rings in the upper-middle portion of the image. A new study suggests impacts of 2 asteroids back-to-back about 1.5 to 4 billion years ago formed these rings. The findings show that giant craters on Venus exist, but they’ve been difficult to identify until now. Image via NASA/ Planetary Science Institute.

• Venus has hundreds of impact craters on its surface, but seems to lack larger impact basins.