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?

[Stu]

Okay, but you get the idea, right? Editors can be hard to convince; they're - understandably - looking for visual impact, something to grab the attention of young readers, and once they've found a "wow" pic to use (don't know how they managed before Google!) you almost have to wrestle it out of their clutching hands...

[tedstryk]

Yes, I get the idea. However, to me, the fact that a lot of Magellan imagery is shown with 20x vertical exaggeration is in that category, but using Venera-based colorization isn't.