Yesterday's image was not the only one like this. Here is a set of five views from Camera 2 on Venera 13, made the same way - from the full image set which, alas, we only have at low resolution:

http://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera13_2.jpg

The changes are small but they are real. There is a messy 6th image but I didn't include it.

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Once you have those panoramas you can do some other things with them. Each one sees the horizon at each end and the foreground in the middle, so they can be projected into a sort of cylindrical projection which straightens the horizon. Here are the two Venera 13 panoramas.

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Venera 13 had 2 cameras and both worked this time, giving 2 panoramas facing in opposite directions. As usual Don Mitchell gives us an excellent treatment of these panoramas:

http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

(about 40% of the way down the page). The scene was scanned through 3 filters plus a clear filter so we have RGB images, nearly complete for one camera, only partial for the other. Here's one of them from that site:

http://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera13_New2.jpg

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