Suggested Photographic Evidence of Life
Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Sciences (a contributor to the Venera mission), in Solar System Research, suggests signs of life in the Venera images. According to Ksanfomaliti, certain objects resembled a "disk", a "black flap" and a "scorpion" which "emerge, fluctuate and disappear", referring to their changing location on different photographs and traces on the ground.
Ksanfomaliti's claim was refuted in a later issue of Solar System Research. Video from the Venus landers was sent to Earth via two different radio systems. One of these used an encoded pulse-time modulation scheme, which results in images that, if they are not decoded, appear to be covered with bright patterns of speckles.
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