Venus Photos from 1981 Show Signs of Editing/Fakery
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I don't know if I'd call that "art".
That could be from anywhere, as well.
On thinking, that picture has some sharp rocks. If Venus was covered in clouds of sulfuric acid, wouldn't you expect rocks to be more rounded?
I just lean towards anything from space being fake at this point, and work backwards from there. I mean, Russia can land multiple probes on Venus and take pictures, but the U.S. can't muster one?
Sulphuric acid is not a magic "dissolve everything in seconds" thing. And there is only 0.018% of SO2 in Venus atmosphere.
US just have no interest in Venus. May be somebody told them, that it is a useless hell with 600°C and 90bar on surface?
Flight to Venus is easier in terms of fuel and time than flight to Mars. Also, in USSR there was no any beforehand knowledge about surface conditions of Venus, Soviet scientists suppose that Venus is covered with water, and first probes was even build with an ability to float in theoretical Venus ocean. So, USSR choose Venus as a target of first interplanetary missions. US choose Mars.
Dude, I've dealt with fuming sulfuric on numerous occasions.
Who said anything about dissolving in seconds? I'm talking eons.
The landers obviously didn't last long, did they though?
Even eons is not enough to noticeably damage SiO2 with 0.02% SO2 atmosphere.
Landers didn't last long because of extreme temperature, not because they dissolved by some acid.
Sulfuric acid itself exists on the altitudes above 60km in the form of clouds, where tempersture allows its existence as acid. And it have very low concentration. Sulfuric acid can't exist on the surface at all due to 600°C temperature.
Sounds good to me.
Still doubting it overall.