Global True Color View Of Venus? |
Global True Color View Of Venus? |
Aug 8 2005, 06:53 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I'm creating a website with views of the worlds of the solar system, to scale with each other (it'll march up and down the few orders of magnitude necessary), and I am having a terrible time finding a global view of Venus to include in it that fits the criteria I'm trying to apply. To the extent possible, I am searching for:
- Full-disk, global view - Minimum phase angle available - Approximate true color, as would be perceived by a human observing the globe from space For Venus, the only global views I am finding are either based on Magellan data (radar views, nothing like what a human would see) or are colorized ultraviolet views (which greatly overemphasize the visibility of cloud patterns in the Venusian atmosphere). I've seen the lovely partial global view of Venus on Don Mitchell's website -- that's the sort of thing I'm looking for, but I need a full disk. Does anybody have any suggestions? Anybody done any work with Mariner 10 or Galileo data that produces a nice, realistic view? -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Oct 18 2010, 02:53 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
QUOTE Has anyone actually tried to make a true-colour map of Venus' surface directly from the Magellan radar data? true color - not possible now a "better" than that old red/orange and yellow/white http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA00481_modest.jpg http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA00104_modest.jpg the color i settled on http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=164503 now as to clouds They change SO fast that there is no "real" up to date data -- artist concept -- that i use a 100% artistic map for it a link to a artistic thread http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=16019 ( the last post is the above image) the color is adjusted so that some of the clouds can be seen and it looks like "bright smog" basically it is darker than if "you" were in orbit looking down at it |
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