Ozza Mons

Ozza Mons is an inactive volcano on planet Venus near the equator.[2]

Ozza Mons

Feature type	Volcano
Coordinates	4.5°N 201°E [1]
Diameter	507 km[2]

Four temporally variable surface hotspots were discovered at the Ganiki Chasma rift zone near volcanoes Ozza Mons and Maat Mons in 2015, suggestive of present volcanic activity.[3][4][5] However, interpreting these types of observations from above the cloud layer correctly is a challenge.[6][7]

See also

• Geology of Venus
• Volcanology of Venus

References

1. Venus Volcano Observing List for Spring 2018. Mattei, M. F. The Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, Volume 60, Number 2, p.38-39. March 2018.
2. Ozza Mons. Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS. Accessed: 7 November 2018.
3. Highly Volcanic Exoplanets, Lava Worlds, and Magma Ocean Worlds: An Emerging Class of Dynamic Exoplanets of Significant Scientific Priority. Wade G. Henning1, Joseph P. Renaud, Prabal Saxena, etal. A white paper submitted in response to the National Academy of Sciences 2018 Exoplanet Science Strategy solicitation, from the NASA Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC) of the Goddard Space Flight Center.
4. Active volcanism on Venus in the Ganiki Chasma rift zone. E. V. Shalygin, W. J. Markiewicz, A. T. Basilevsky, etal. doi:10.1002/2015GL064088. 23 May 2015.
5. Shalygin, E. V., Basilevsky, A. T., Markiewicz, W. J., Titov, D. V., Kreslavsky, M. A., & Roatsch, T. (2012). "Search for ongoing volcanic activity on Venus: Case study of Maat Mons, Sapas Mons and Ozza Mons volcanoes." Planetary and Space Science, 73(1), 294–301.
6. Ozza Mons - Hot lava flows discovered on Venus. Astronomy Now. 19 June 2015.
7. Venus: The Making of an Uninhabitable World. (PDF) Stephen R. Kane, Giada Arney, David Crisp, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Lori S. Glaze, Colin Goldblatt, Adrian Lenardic, CaymanUnterborn, Michael J. Way. arXive. 2018.