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?

[scalbers]

Is this web page with a Venus image showing some real data or an artistic work?

http://rocksfromspace.open.ac.uk/Venus.htm

If I can find a "full" Venus image I can try to see what it looks like with Science On A Sphere.

Thanks,

Steve

[CJSF]

Is this web page with a Venus image showing some real data or an artistic work?

http://rocksfromspace.open.ac.uk/Venus.htm

If I can find a "full" Venus image I can try to see what it looks like with Science On A Sphere.

Thanks,

Steve

I agree- that is a UV image of Venus. True color images look pretty much like a billiard ball. See this thread for more information.

CJSF

[scalbers]

I agree- that is a UV image of Venus. True color images look pretty much like a billiard ball. See this thread for more information.

CJSF

Right, though perhaps it might be interesting to try colorizing the Pioneer UV images by using information from missions like Venus Express and MESSENGER? Perhaps some subtle color might be visible and would give us a reasonable approximation of a "global true color" image.