The University of Trento is a research-oriented university in Italy with a tradition of space-related activities, including collaborations with NASA, ESA, and CNSA. Its researchers have leading roles in space missions like AMS on the ISS, LISA-PF, LISA, CSES-1, CSES-2, and JUICE. The university coordinates the National PhD course in Space Science and Technology and offers programs in engineering and physics relevant to the space industry.
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Chiara Bartolini is the first author of the study and is a PhD student in the National Doctorate in Space Sciences and Technologies, a student at the University of Trento, and affiliated with the INFN section of Bari.
Lorenzo Bruzzone is a full professor of Telecommunications and head of the Remote Sensing Laboratory at the University of Trento and coordinated the analysis for the study.
The University of Trento team argues that the newly reported lava tube is likely only the beginning of a broader effort to map and understand Venus's hidden volcanic architecture.
The University of Trento identified a lava tube in the subsurface of Venus through radar data analysis.
The research was a partnership between the University of Innsbruck's Department of Experimental Physics, the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Trento's Pitaevskii BEC Center.
The University of Trento's Pitaevskii BEC Center provided support for the experiments.
LUGO’s payloads include an Italian ground-penetrating radar developed by the University of Trento.