Active volcanism. Plate tectonics. Retaining the atmosphere without a magnetosphere. There's so much to learn about Venus! In this interview I'm discussing all these things with Dr Paul Byrne, Planetary Evangelist and Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis 🐥 Professor Paul Byrne on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:14 Why Venus? 00:05:32 The big questions 00:08:03 Why so underexplored 00:20:13 Problems with the VERITAS mission 00:30:05 Vulcanism on Venus 00:46:07 Data for the future 00:47:50 No Magnetosphere but with atmosphere. Why? 00:54:20 Plate tectonics 00:58:59 Venus as an exoplanet 01:04:13 Venus sample return 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/VXuhaJu-GNM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast