Venus Photos from 1981 Show Signs of Editing/Fakery
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These were the only photos that could be obtained and transmitted before the lander succumbed to the adverse conditions on the surface. The 2 landers were Russian, not American/NASA.
It's an interesting topic, which I believe may be sensitive issue for some, but in general NASA is the space agency that does the fakes. Devon Island is a NASA project. I don't think I've ever seen a researcher call Russia out on any faked images.
In fact you can use some Russian images to prove NASA images are fakes - since early Russian satellite color images of the earth from the moon's perspective show the surface of the moon as a shade of brown, which correlates with spectral analysis done of the color of the moon's surface. However these things were still vaguely understood when NASA did it's first fakes of the moons surface, and they made it gray since that was the color they thought was accurate. It has been proved at various times in the past though, before and since the Apollo missions, that the surface is dark to light brown and not gray at all as seen in Apollo imagery; but this fact quietly ignored.
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The brown color of the moon is an established scientific fact!
Have you watched any of the videos on symbology in space agencies around the world? They are definitely in cahoots, almost regardless of country. I would say the situation is similar to Antarctica.
I would still find it very difficult to believe that most of space is fake and gay EXCEPT for Russian probe photos. There's been definite fakery from China as well.
I agree they are in cahoots, but in the early days, NASA faked images and missions from the get go (when they realised they could not get people to the moon alive), whereas Russia didn't.
The info gleaned from these early Russian missions and explorations is valuable because it appears to be real info.
For example, cosmonauts could not last long in space, in cramped confines of spacecraft. When they came back after a couple of days they were near death (infarction). Whereas NASA astronauts emerge from allegedly weeks long mission with big smiles!
However Russia has never called out NASA on it's obvious fakes despite the obvious discrepancies such as above. There is an agreement in place. But who knows when that might break down.
As to China, they have clearly done fakes, but then they also produced lunar rover pictures that showed a brown surface which were probably real. Maybe that was a message to USA?
So did Russia ever start with faking things as well? You said the early ones were valuable...well, what made them switch then?
I think Russia didn't do fakes since America was far superior in producing special effects in cinema and photography and had more money. NASA's fakes were convincing enough that they still convince most to this day.
Think about it like this: compare films from the time; a good comparison is "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Solaris" - both excellent space films, but the effects in 2001 are far more ingenious and convincing than those in the Russian film "Solaris". US military already had a fully equipped movie studio in Laurel Canyon for producing all kinds of propaganda; some say it was better equipped than even the top Hollywood studios.
I don't think Russia switched particularly; the venus missions are from the 80's for example. NASA's success probably put them off funding much real space exploration stuff, that was already going to be expensive, boring, and essentially unimpressive compared with America's elaborate fakery.