There is life on Venus, Russian researcher Leonid Ksanfomaliti says
Baku, January 24 (AZERTAC). A Russian scientist reportedly published a report claiming evidence of life on Venus, the closest planet in the direction of the Sun.
Leonid Ksanfomaliti, an astronomer at the Space Research Institute of Russia`s Academy of Sciences, came to this conclusion after analyzing images recorded by the Russian Venera-13 landing probe during its 1982 mission on Venus.
Venus is as big as Earth, but it features a denser atmosphere which contains mainly carbon dioxide. So far, the probability of finding life on Venus has been regarded as slim due to the fact that the planet has an atmospheric pressure 92 times that of the Earth, a waterless and volcanic surface and a temperature of 894 degrees.
Ksanfomaliti who submitted his revealings to the magazine Solar System Research, claims the Venera photos show objects looking pretty much like a “disk,” a “black flap” and a “scorpion.”
“What if we forget about the current theories about the non-existence of life on Venus?” Ksanfomaliti wrote. “Let`s boldly suggest that the objects` morphological features would allow us to say that they are living.”
Europe`s Venus Express spacecraft, has been orbiting the planet since 2005. Scientists involved in the project have not reported any life evidence, however they have not ruled out the odds of finding microscopic life forms on the surface.
Leonid Ksanfomaliti says that the objects he spotted seem to “emerge, fluctuate and disappear” in various pictures taken from a variety of vantage points.
The Venera series probes were developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to collect data from Venus. In Rusian language, Venera means Venus.
10 probes from the Venera series successfully landed on Venus and broadcast data from the surface, including the two Vega program and Venera-Halley probes. Aditionally, 13 Venera probes successfully transmitted data from the atmosphere of Venus.
The conditions on Venus are quite rough, as the lifetime of the probes on the surface spanned from 23 minutes (first probes) up to about 2 hours (last probes).
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