A 2023 catalog of Venus’s surface by Hahn and Byrne reports 85,000 of these features, approximately 50 times as many as were previously cataloged. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these lava-emitting structures whose “shield” type are ubiquitous on Venus.
ANSWER: volcanoes [accept shield volcanoes]
[10m] For their catalog, Hahn and Byrne used data collected in the 1990s by a spacecraft named for this person. This person’s “clouds” are a pair of irregular dwarf galaxies visible from the southern hemisphere.
ANSWER: Ferdinand Magellan [accept Magellanic Clouds]
[10h] Volcanoes are less common on two of these geographic features on Venus that are named for Ishtar and Aphrodite. These features, the third of which is named for Lada, are analogous to continents.
ANSWER: terrae [accept Ishtar Terra or Aphrodite Terra or Lada Terra]
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