GARTINsux; Even the photos that exist of Venus, are probably not Venus.
If they were, when & how did they get through the cloud cover, and why
in those photos were there no clouds? See how they're derelicts at
lying. The best NASA intelligence operatives, are derelicts.
I tend to believe that such radar imaging was a done deal. There's
sufficient proof-positive that our NSA/CIA--DoD had that capability
and at least at the time there was nothing of Venus that was per say
cloak and dagger or otherwise connected to our mutually perpetrated
cold war, that which had everything to do with those bogus Apollo moon
missions.

Trust me, those were images of Venus. At least the Magellan/SAR method
isn't of what's in question unless you've got some hard-science or
other info that'll suggest we didn't quite have that imaging technology
at the time.

If you'd like to question upon something, stick with questioning those
rather unusually xenon lamp illuminated Apollo EVAs, as their
unfiltered Kodak film recorded what's not of our lunar terrain, but of
what somewhat looks as though a lunar terrain. Unfortunately, those
Kodak moments are so terribly unskewed and/or moderated that it's hard
to say exactly where upon Earth such images were obtained, other than
for certain they weren't as such situated upon that extremely dark and
nasty plus reactive moon that would have somewhat badly skewed such
unfiltered images.

If you'd like more radar imaging history and/or expertise, I'll see
what I can do.

I'll take another look-see at your "LIFE ON VENUS" topic.
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Brad Guth