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Amisadas: Hypothetical Venusian Fauna at the Venera-14 Landing Site obiolog str y & f A O u o l t a r e n a r c u h o Ksanfomality, Astrobiol Outreach 2014, 2:1 J Journal of Astrobiology & Outreach DOI: 10.4172/2332-2519.1000112 ISSN: 2332-2519 Research Article Open Access Amisadas: Hypothetical Venusian Fauna at the Venera-14 Landing Site Leonid V Ksanfomality* Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia *Corresponding author: Leonid V. Ksanfomality, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Tel: 44-777-838-9243; E-mail: [email protected] Rec Date: March 27, 2014; Acc Date: June 13, 2014; Pub Date: June 16, 2014 Copyright: © 2014 Ksanfomality LV. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Abstract Among hypothetical fauna entities of Venus, which are presented in our previous papers certain unusual findings having similar structure were found in different areas of the planet. These objects were called “Hespies”. Their unusual shape attracted attention and was repeated on various panoramas taken by landers’ cameras. The present study deals with another object repeated on successive panoramas for which a nickname “Amisadas” is proposed. At a cursory examination, when seen from above, its body is fish-shaped and has the size of 12-15 cm. Despite the VENERA-13 and VENERA -14 landing sites separated by a distance of 900 km from each other, Amisadas are found in both places. In this paper, we analyze panoramas of both landers. In the course of this study novel unusual objects were found. By virtue of a close position of the objects to the TV-camera lens, low noise intrinsic to VENERA-14 images and sufficient number of the panoramas, detailed images of Amisadas were obtained. Information related to methods of the raw-image processing is also presented. The attention is paid to the method of search for hypothetical living forms on the planet Venus. Keywords: Planet venus; Space vehicles instruments; Planet’s the best and all our physical conditions are the best too”. Based on this surface; Astrobiology idea, limited “habitable zones” are drawn in schemes of extrasolar planet systems and are under the study of theoreticians. No other Introduction possibilities are considered. For thousands of years, humanity has wondered whether there is life outside the Earth. Recently, a series of studies was devoted to strange entities in images that were returned from the surface of the planet Venus by the VENERA landers, 39 (for VENERA-9, 10) and 32 years ago (for VENERA-13, 14). Experiments in television photography [1,2] instrumented by the landers VENERA yielded many panoramas (or their fragments) of the Venus surface at the landing sites. Thus the method was the same that is used for a contemporary search of hypothetical martian life. The images were re- processed using modern processing techniques. There are entities that one can consider to be signs of hypothetical life on Venus, regardless of how crazy this assumption sounds. Along with unfamiliar forms, some of the found objects are closely reminiscent of the forms of some of Earth’s living organisms. e.g., the term might be referred to as a ‘Bear Cub’ [3], found in a VENERA-9 panorama (Figure 1). The resolution in the panorama was 21’, and for that reason, despite the Bear Cub’s close position, the identifiability of finer details is limited. The similarity phenomenon is called terramorphism. Figure 1: Panorama fragment obtained as a result of the VENERA-9 The pictures revealed a dozen previously undetected strange objects mission upon additional data processing. In the forefront, there is a that can attest to the fact that Venus does possess hypothetical life. small object seen from above, similar to a bear-cub by its shape. By Materials shown in this paper demonstrate experimental results that its soft contours, the object is distinguished from the sharp stone involve re-processing of the original panoramas, without any edges. To the left beyond the object, over the ground, there retouching or corrections. For the moment, it is impossible to prove propagate long furrows that terminate under the Bear-Cub. that the objects are alive in fact because they cannot be touched. Apparently, these tracks indicate the preceding motion of the object However, the opposite is true also, that nobody can place errors into [4,6]. the processing of the images. Instead, critical arguments boil down to the famous humorous statement of A.P. Chekhov, in his ‘Letter to my neighbor-scientist’: "this cannot be, because it never can be." During the 39 and 32 years that passed since the time of TV Subconsciously, all positions of critics have been based on variations of experiments employing VENERA landers (1975 and 1982), no similar the statement: only the Earth’s conditions are suitable for life. “We are experiments or missions to Venus have been performed by any space Astrobiol Outreach Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 1000112 ISSN:2332-2519 JAO, an open access journal Citation: Ksanfomality LV (2014) Amisadas: Hypothetical Venusian Fauna at the Venera-14 Landing Site. Astrobiol Outreach 2: 1000112. doi: 10.4172/2332-2519.1000112 Page 2 of 5 agency. In connection with the renewed interest in what was occurring example is an object called Disk [4], which was detected in the BW-6 during the experiment and to the discovery of manifestations of panorama transmitted to the Earth on the 87th-100th min upon possible life revealed on some of the pictures, the panoramas were re- landing the VENERA-13 module. Panoramas of VENERA landers examined. A train of papers [4-6] published in 2012 presented some were studied for many years by both Russian and foreign researchers. data on the hypothetical Venus fauna and flora that survives under However, the Amisadas are described for the first time. Therefore, the physical settings that are radically different from the Earth’s. natural question arises, why no entities, even terramorphic were found previously? This fact can be explained by two reasons. The first one is The existence of life on Venus, at first glance, sounds absurdly. that nobody was looking for them, although the earliest publication Physical conditions on Venus are incompatible with terrestrial life at about it (by the author) is dated by 1978 [9]. The second, more all. It may be reminded that the Venusian atmosphere almost entirely important reason is the necessity to develop novel processing methods is composed of carbon dioxide and cloud layers located highly in that did not exist previously and the processing is very labour atmosphere consist of micron-size droplets of concentrated sulfuric assuming. Therefore, in the present paper, we make an attempt to acid. Surface temperature of Venus is 735 K (462°C), and pressure is describe the method of search for detection and processing of 9.2 MPa. In many sites, the planet surface is similar to solidified lava. terramorphic objects, namely of Amisadas. It is more difficult to The daytime illumination attains 5-10 klx and higher; blue light is explain, why a certain object could attract attention and be found out. absorbed by the atmosphere, and the sky tint is yellowish. Apparently, this is associated with individual features of the image The Sun disk usually is not seen through permanently presenting perception for different persons. These properties are sharpened, e.g., clouds. The duration of both the day and the night is 58.4 Earth days. at talent professional photographers of nature, who are capable to A typical Venusian landscape is a waterless red-hot stony or loose notice and fix unusual images or compositions ignored by other surface, mountains, and, sometimes, volcanoes. A hypothetical people. waterless Venusian life, if it does exist, has to use biophysical mechanisms of metabolism and photosynthesis, which are Obtaining and Processing of Experimental Data distinguished from those of the Earth’s life. Images published soon after the completion of the VENERA Panoramic images of the Venusian surface were returned in the missions were obtained on the basis of single or combined black-and- course of the Soviet VENERA missions in 1975 and 1982. In total, 41 white or color-divided panoramas. As was reported, there are many images or their fragments were transmitted by the landers’ cameras. primary raw images not studied yet. Detailed information on TV Up to now, 10 or 11 unusual objects were found, analyzed, and experiments on the VENERA-13 and VENERA-14 landers was discussed in relevant publications. The re-processing of the images published in [1-6] and is not repeated here. Different from cameras 1 made it possible to detect novel unusual objects that could be signs of of the VENERA-13 and VENERA -14 landers, the cameras 2 hypothetical life on the Venus planet. Compared to the VENERA-13 transmitted a full black-and-white image and then in turn, colored landing site [4-6], the analyzed VENERA-14 panoramas represent fragments of right and left parts of the panoramas, 14 fragments taken geological provinces of another type. Object found on panoramas of by each camera. VENERA-14 were originally referred to as “hespy” [7] (similarly to the case of the VENERA-13 landing site). However, described here unusually shaped objects, apparently, represent another hypothetical group of Venusian flora. Similarly to [4-6] and for convenience of description, the specific nickname “Amisadas” was proposed for this group of objects (an abbreviation from the name of ancient Babylonian king Ammizaduqa in Mesopotamia (XVI century BC). His astronomers used clay tablets in which apparitions of Venus were recorded.
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