{"id":2550,"date":"2012-01-22T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T21:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2012-01-22T21:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T02:04:22","slug":"russian-scientist-claims-signs-of-life-spotted-on-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/russian-scientist-claims-signs-of-life-spotted-on-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian scientist claims signs of life spotted on Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Indo-Asian News Service\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0Saturday that a\u00a0Russian scientist\u00a0has published what he claims is evidence of\u00a0life on Venus, Earth\u2019s nearest neighbor in the direction of the sun.<\/p>\n

Leonid Ksanfomaliti, an astronomer based at the Space Research Institute of Russia\u2019s Academy of Sciences, analyzed\u00a0photographstaken\u00a0by a Russian landing probe during a 1982 during a\u00a0mission to explore the heavily acid-clouded planet.<\/p>\n

Venus is roughly the same size as Earth, but it has a thick atmosphere dominated by\u00a0carbon dioxide. With an atmospheric pressure 92 times Earth\u2019s, a waterless and volcano-riddled surface and a surface temperature of\u00a0894 degrees, the planet has never been considered a serious target of research into the possibility of extraterrestrial life.<\/p>\n

But in his article, published in the magazine\u00a0Solar System Research,\u00a0Ksanfomaliti says the Russian photographs depict objects resembling a \u201cdisk,\u201d a \u201cblack flap\u201d and a \u201cscorpion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if we forget about the current theories about the non-existence of life on Venus?\u201d he wrote. \u201cLet\u2019s boldly suggest that the objects\u2019 morphological features would allow us to say that they are living.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other research has suggested that liquid water may have once covered Venus, but the scientific consensus suggests that there have been no oceans there for at least 2 billion years.<\/p>\n

The Venus Express spacecraft, built by European engineers,\u00a0has been observing the planet since its 2005 launch. Scientists working on that project have not reported similar findings, but they also have not ruled out the possibility that life \u2014 albeit microscopic \u2014 could still lurk there beneath the clouds.<\/p>\n

The project is largely dedicated to analyzing what its leaders describe as a \u201cgreenhouse effect\u201d-related eco-catastrophe that once converted Venus into an uninhabitable wasteland.<\/p>\n

Ksanfomaliti cautioned that the objects he wrote about seem to \u201cemerge, fluctuate and disappear\u201d in different photographs taken from a variety of vantage points.<\/p>\n

Source Daily Caller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Indo-Asian News Service\u00a0reported\u00a0Saturday that a\u00a0Russian scientist\u00a0has published what he claims is evidence of\u00a0life on Venus, Earth\u2019s nearest neighbor in the direction of the sun. Leonid Ksanfomaliti, an astronomer based at … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[1032],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}