Paper No. 140-1
Presentation Time: 1:35 PM
AVENGERS (ANALOGS FOR VENUS GEOLOGICALLY RECENT SURFACES) INITIATIVE: AN INVESTIGATION OF TERRESTRIAL ANALOG ACTIVE VOLCANO-TECTONIC AREAS FOR VENUS EXPLORATION (Invited Presentation)
FILIBERTO, Justin1, D’INCECCO, Piero2, GARVIN, James3, ARNEY, Giada3, GETTY, Stephanie3, KOHLER, Erika3, ZELENYI, L.M4, ZASOVA, L.V.4, KORABLEV, O.4, IVANOV, M.A.5, HEAD, James6, GORINOV, D.A.4, BHATTACHARYA, S.7, BHIRAVARASU, S.S.7, PUTREVU, D.7, LOPEZ, Ivan8, GHAIL, Richard C.9, MASON, P.10, BROSSIER, Jeremy11, MONACO, C.12, BRANCA, Stefano13, CORSARO, Rosanna13, TRANG, David14, CRANDALL, Jake R.15, MARI, N.16, BLACKETT, M.17, KOMATSU, G.18, KOSENKOVA, A.19, FLYNN, Ian T.W.20, AVENI, S.21, LANG, Nicholas Patrick22, THOMSON, Bradley J.23, PAGANO, Isabella24, CASSISI, S.2, EGGERS, Gabriel25, ERNST, Richard26, EL BILALI, Hafida27, KREMIC, Tibor28, IZENBERG, Noam29, BRUZZONE, Lorenzo30, EL YAZIDI, M.31, FERRONI, Eleonora2, COERO BORGA, Davide32, BADIA, C.2, PARISINI, Stefano33, FIASCONARO, G.34, CUSSINI, S.35 and DI ACHILLE, G.2, (1)Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Pkwy, Houston, 77058-3696, (2)National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) - Astronomical Observatory of Abruzzo, Teramo, Teramo 64100, Italy, (3)NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, (4)Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Moscow 117997, Russian Federation, (5)V. I. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Moscow, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation, (6)Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, (7)Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organization, Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India, (8)Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, 28933, Spain, (9)Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, Egham TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, (10)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (11)Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Roma, Italia 00133, Italy, (12)Università di Catania, Catania, Italy, (13)INGV - Osservatorio Etneo, Piazza Roma, 2, 5, Catania, 95125, Italy, (14)Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii, 1680 East-West Road, POST 503, Honolulu, HI 96822, (15)Department of Geology & Geography, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 61920, (16)University of Pavia, Pavi, 27100, Italy, (17)Coventry University, London, United Kingdom, (18)Università G. d’Annunzio, Pescara, Italy, (19)Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russian Federation, (20)Geology and Environmental Science, University of Pittsburgh, PITTSBURGH, PA 15260, (21)Sapienza University of Rome, rome, Italy, (22)NASA, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC 20546, (23)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, (24)National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Catania, Italy, (25)Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, (26)Department of Earth Science, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1N5B6, Canada, (27)Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology Research Centre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada, (28)NASA, Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135, (29)Space Exploration Sector, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd., Laurel, MD 20723, (30)University of Trento, Trento, Italy, (31)Università Cattolica, Roma, Italy, (32)National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) – Headquarters, Roma, Italy, (33)National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) - Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, Italy, (34)National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) - Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics (IASF), Palermo, Italy, (35)National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) - Osservatorio di astrofisica e scienza dello spazio, Bologna, Italy
One of the key questions for Venus remains whether it is volcanically active today, and if it is what the volcanism and resurfacing rate is. In the next decade, we will have extensive new data for the surface of Venus from the upcoming accepted and potential missions to Venus – NASA’s DAVINCI (Garvin et al. 2022) and VERITAS (Smrekar et al. 2022) missions, ESA’s EnVision mission (Ghail et al. 2017, 2020), Roscosmos’ Venera-D mission (Zasova et al. 2019), China’s VOICE mission (Wang et al. 2022), ISRO’s Shukrayaan-I mission (Sundararajan 2021), and the privately funded Venus Life Finder mission (Seager et al. 2022). In order to help prepare for this new era of Venus exploration the “Analogs for VENus’ GEologically Recent Surfaces” (AVENGERS) initiative aims at investigating several terrestrial analog sites for the comparative study of recent and possibly ongoing volcanic activity on Venus. Besides its scientific importance, the AVENGERS initiative acts as a bridge for international scientific collaboration, including the leaderships and/or team members from all the currently selected missions to Venus. Our first site selection is Mt Etna (D’Incecco et al. 2024) one of the most active and monitored volcanoes on Earth. We directly compared Mount Etna with Idunn Mons, which is a potentially active volcano on Venus (Smrekar et al. 2010; D’Incecco et al. 2021). The two volcanic edifices show interesting points of comparison: a) comparable morpho-structural setting, since both volcanoes interact with a rift zone, and b) morphologically similar volcanic fields around both Mount Etna and Idunn Mons. Here we will discuss the main objectives of the project, and the preliminary criteria of selection that will be used to select the analog sites on Earth. We will then provide examples of active volcanic areas on Earth that we intend to use as endmembers volcanoes for the analysis of potential active volcanism on Venus. Finally, we will list the methodologies that will be used in our ongoing and future investigations.
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