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?

[planet_guy]

If you are interested in the surface stuff done by VIRTIS on VEX you can take a look at
http://solarsystem.dlr.de/TP/VIRTIS_en.shtml
and
http://irsps.sci.unich.it/~luciam/VEX/
The beauty of VIRTIS is that we will for the first time get global multispectral imaging from the surface of Venus over a long time period.

[algorimancer]

If you are interested in the surface stuff done by VIRTIS on VEX you can take a look at
http://solarsystem.dlr.de/TP/VIRTIS_en.shtml
and
http://irsps.sci.unich.it/~luciam/VEX/
The beauty of VIRTIS is that we will for the first time get global multispectral imaging from the surface of Venus over a long time period.

Of course, if Mars Express is any guide, we won't get to see much of the results :/