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A perspective view across Maat Mons on Venus, based on Magellan radar data. Credit: NASA/JPL Venus is almost the same size, mass and density as Earth. So it should be generating heat in its interior (by the decay of radioactive elements) at much the same rate as the Earth does. On Earth, one of the…