The makers of the Venera probes do not believe in defects or lens trickery, and agree with Ksanfomality's interpretation. The scorpion vanished in a
rock groove or surface fissure, that could reach far below the surface. If composed inside of molten silicates, it would travel this way. Silicon
based life is suitable on Venus, with no water and oxygen, extreme temp and 60-90x earth pressures, sulphuric acid cloud droplets, CO2 and N2
atmosphere, and abundant silicate minerals notably in the highlands. The highlands likely contain metallic compounds like iron pyrite. Iron abundance
strengthens and makes highly stable complex silanes that form organosilicates, analogous to carbon life. Wang showed organic silicon nanotubes can
wrap helical silanes, much like carbon on earth wraps DNA. These highlands have unexplainable bizarre pancake domes that resemble in detail living
clusters of cell colonies. Pancake domes grow in clusters on Venus, and are all the same height and width of their neighbor. Silicon based organic
activities beneath pancake domes could explain these organized features, better than the geologic interpretation of underground channels of magma
rising to the surface and rapidly solidifying to form pancake domes. See strong evidence, photos, links, for silicon-life on the Venus pancake domes
and arachnoids at
holographicgalaxy.blogspot.com...