Expedition Veritas: Away Team Visits To A Variety Of Terrains
At the Holuhraun lava field (shown here), we explored several different lava textures, all of them put in place during an eruption in 2014.
NASA
One of the main goals of the Expedition VERITAS campaign was to create a “library” of as many different volcanic surface textures as possible to use as a reference for when VERITAS gets to Venus. This philosophy guided our choices of field locations in Iceland.
Near Askja volcano, an active volcano in the central highlands of Iceland, we studied how different amounts of sediment change the radar interpretation, from moderate coverage of sediment to almost no coverage.
At the Holuhraun lava field (shown here), we explored several different lava textures, all of them put in place during an eruption in 2014.
Astrobiology
