"Some scientists believe that until about 500 million years ago the Venus surface was almost entirely devoid of landforms. Streams and oceans of molten rock were relentlessly pouring out of the interior filling in and covering over any relief that had managed to form."
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Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Pale Blue Dot (Random House 2011 [1994]), p. 183
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