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Unique archive data from investigations of the surface of Venus performed with television cameras on the VENERA missions in 1975 and 1982 were reprocessed with up-to-date techniques, which substantially improved their level of detail. Numerous objects exhibiting a complex regular structure and presumably very slow motions (in the case of hypothetical fauna) have been found. The objects are noticeable in size and may testify to the existence of life. This paper reviews the results of searching for and identifying hypothetical objects of Venusian flora. The detected and identified hypothetical objects considerably exhaust the corresponding potential of the television images. It is concluded that, to investigate the surface of Venus, a new special mission, much more sophisticated than the VENERA missions (1975–1982), should be urgently carried out.
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Original Russian Text © L.V. Ksanfomality, A.S. Selivanov, Yu.M. Gektin, G.A. Avanesov, 2016, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2016, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 229–241.
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Ksanfomality, L.V., Selivanov, A.S., Gektin, Y.M. et al. Signs of hypothetical flora on the planet venus: Revision of the TV experiment data (1975–1982). Cosmic Res 54, 217–228 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952516030035
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