Global True Color View Of Venus? Options

[elakdawalla]

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?

[4th rock from th...]

My best attempts, using Mariner 10 "clear" and "blue" filter images:



These are two versions of the same image. One is processed to show a neutral white Venus, the other was based on the yellow atmosphere seen from the surface.

I've searched the internet for some Venus visible specta and found some interesting data. I'll post some images based on this data but for now my conclusion it that the planet's general color is pale-yellow, with some bright white-blue clouds (better visible in UV).