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

Ozza Mons
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Feature typeVolcano
Coordinates4°30′N 201°00′E / 4.5°N 201°E / 4.5; 201 [1]
Diameter507 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] However, interpreting these types of observations from above the cloud layer correctly is a challenge.[5]

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  1. ^ Mattei, M. (2018). "Venus Volcano Observing List for Spring 2018". The Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers. 60 (2): 38–39. Bibcode:2018JALPO..60b..38M.
  2. ^ a b Ozza Mons. Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS. Accessed: 7 November 2018.
  3. ^ Henning, Wade G.; Renaud, Joseph P.; Saxena, Prabal; Whelley, Patrick L.; Mandell, Avi M.; Matsumura, Soko; Glaze, Lori S.; Hurford, Terry A.; Livengood, Timothy A.; Hamilton, Christopher W.; Efroimsky, Michael; Makarov, Valeri V.; Berghea, Ciprian T.; Guzewich, Scott D.; Tsigaridis, Kostas; Arney, Giada N.; Cremons, Daniel R.; Kane, Stephen R.; Bleacher, Jacob E.; Kopparapu, Ravi K.; Kohler, Erika; Lee, Yuni; Rushby, Andrew; Kuang, Weijia; Barnes, Rory; Richardson, Jacob A.; Driscoll, Peter; Schmerr, Nicholas C.; Del Genio, Anthony D.; Davies, Ashley Gerard; Kaltenegger, Lisa; Elkins-Tanton, Linda; Fujii, Yuka; Schaefer, Laura; Ranjan, Sukrit; Quintana, Elisa; Barclay, Thomas S.; Hamano, Keiko; Petro, Noah E.; Kendall, Jordan D.; Lopez, Eric D.; Sasselov, Dimitar D. (April 2018). "Highly Volcanic Exoplanets, Lava Worlds, and Magma Ocean Worlds: An Emerging Class of Dynamic Exoplanets of Significant Scientific Priority". arXiv:1804.05110 [astro-ph.EP].
  4. ^ Shalygin, E. V.; Markiewicz, W. J.; Basilevsky, A. T.; Titov, D. V.; Ignatiev, N. I.; Head, J. W. (June 2015). "Active volcanism on Venus in the Ganiki Chasma rift zone". Geophysical Research Letters. 42 (12): 4762–4769. Bibcode:2015GeoRL..42.4762S. doi:10.1002/2015GL064088.
  5. ^ Kane, Stephen R.; Arney, Giada; Crisp, David; Domagal-Goldman, Shawn; Glaze, Lori S.; Goldblatt, Colin; Lenardic, Adrian; Unterborn, Cayman; Way, Michael J. (January 2018). "Venus: The Making of an Uninhabitable World". arXiv:1801.03146 [astro-ph.EP].