The recently selected missions to Venus have opened a new era for the exploration of this planet. These missions will provide information about the chemistry of the atmosphere, the geomorphology, local-to-regional surface composition, and the rheology of the interior. One key scientific question to be addressed by these future missions is whether Venus remains volcanically active, and if so, how its volcanism is currently evolving. Hence, it is fundamental to analyze appropriate terrestrial analog sites for the study of possibly active volcanism on Venus. To this regard, we propose Mount Etna - one of the most active and monitored volcanoes on Earth - as a suitable terrestrial laboratory for remote and in-situ investigations to be performed by future missions to Venus. Being characterized by both effusive and explosive volcanic products, Mount Etna offers the opportunity to analyze multiple eruptive styles, both monitoring active volcanism and identifying the possible occurrence of pyroclastic activity on Venus. We directly compare Mount Etna with Idunn Mons, one of the most promising potentially active volcanoes of Venus. Despite the two structures show a different topography, they also show some interesting points of comparison, and in particular: a) comparable morpho-structural setting, since both volcanoes interact with a rift zone, and b) morphologically similar volcanic fields around both Mount Etna and Idunn Mons. Given its ease of access, we also propose Mount Etna as an analog site for laboratory spectroscopic studies to identify the signatures of unaltered volcanic deposits on Venus. C1 [D'Incecco, P.; Cardinale, M.; Di Achille, G.] Natl Inst Astrophys INAF, Astron Observ Abruzzo, Teramo, Italy. [Filiberto, J.] NASA, Astromat Res & Explorat Sci ARES Div, Johnson Space Ctr, Houston, TX 77058 USA. [Garvin, J. B.; Arney, G. N.; Getty, S. A.] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA. [Ghail, R.] Royal Holloway Univ London, Earth Sci, Egham TW20 0EX, England. [Zelenyi, L. M.; Zasova, L. V.; Gorinov, D. A.] Russian Acad Sci, Space Res Inst, Moscow, Russia. [Ivanov, M. A.] Russian Acad Sci, VI Vernadskii Inst Geochem & Analyt Chem, 19 Kosygin St, Moscow 119991, Russia. [Bhattacharya, S.; Bhiravarasu, S. S.; Putrevu, D.] Indian Space Res Org, Space Applicat Ctr, Ahmadabad, India. [Monaco, C.] Univ Catania, Dipartimento Sci Biol Geol & Ambientali, Catania, Italy. [Monaco, C.; Branca, S.] Ist Nazl Geofis & Vulcanol, Osservatorio Etneo, Sez Catania, Catania, Italy. [Aveni, S.] Sapienza Univ Rome, Dept Civil Construct & Environm Engn DICEA, Rome, Italy. [Lopez, I.] Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Dept Biol Geol Fis & Quim Inorgan, Tecvolrisk Res Grp, Madrid 28933, Spain. [Eggers, G. L.] Lunar & Planetary Inst, USRA, 3600 Bay Area Blvd, Houston, TX 77058 USA. [Mari, N.] Univ Pavia, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, I-27100 Pavia, Italy. [Blackett, M.] Coventry Univ, Ctr Agroecol Water & Resilience CAWR, Coventry, England. [Komatsu, G.] Univ G dAnnunzio, Pescara, Italy. [Kosenkova, A.] Bauman Moscow State Tech Univ, Moscow, Russia. [El Yazidi, M.] Univ Padua, Ctr Studies & Act Space G Colombo CISAS, Padua, Italy. [El Yazidi, M.] ESTEc ESA, ESTEc, Keplerlaan 1, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands. [Leone, G.] Univ Atacama, Inst Invest Astron & Ciencias Planetarias, Copiapo, Chile. C3 National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA); National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; University of London; Royal Holloway University London; Russian Academy of Sciences; Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Russian Academy of Sciences; Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry & Analytical Chemistry; Department of Space (DoS), Government of India; Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO); Space Applications Centre (SAC); University of Catania; Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV); Sapienza University Rome; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; University of Pavia; Coventry University; G d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara; Bauman Moscow State Technical University; University of Padua; European Space Agency; European Space Research & Technology Centre; Universidad de Atacama