Venera Spacecraft Cosmos 482 Piece E from 1972
Taken by Ralf Vandebergh on June 25, 2021 @
The Netherlands
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Cosmos-482 Piece E (Presumingly Descent Capsule)
In june 2014, I succeeded in capturing images of Cosmos 482 during 2 reasonably steady nights, on june 25 and june 26. Meanwhile I switched to a higher quality monochromatic camera. The best images of those sessions show a compact tiny disc, a shape that would indeed correspond to a small descent module as the lander of a Venera is. Though, interestingly, both imaging sessions tend to show also other elements, especially a more or less elongated part that seems connected to the compact object. The processings below are reprocessings of the original imaging data done in the years 2019 and 2021. The material compares averaged data of both sessions and some selected single frames of the June 26 imaging session (best seeing and most favorable pass) of Cosmos-482 object E. It is just hypothetical, but it could be a possibility that the visible elongated element that seems connected to the compact object is the parachute that came out of the descent module when it separated in June 1972 from the spacecraft!If these is indeed the case, which would be amazing, then the parachute is in non-deployed state of course.
Photographer's website:
https://www.ralfvandebergh-astrophotography.simpsite.nl/home
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