I've seen a lot of places on the internet pass off a single monochrome frame of Venus as Venus in true color. Other than that, I couldn't find a single image of Venus that didn't include light outside the visible range. So, I downloaded raw frames of Venus from MESSENGER in 433nm, 559nm, and 629nm and assembled them to finally create this approximate true color view of Venus.
https://i.redd.it/tn9raauga1lg1.png
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When I was a kid, what was under those clouds felt like the ultimate mystery. And then it wasn’t. Still, crazy cool.
Be glad to live where the atmosphere is not trying to kill you with a surface temperature of about 737 K (464 °C; 867 °F)—hot enough to melt lead—and a surface pressure of 93 bar (9.3 MPa), equivalent to the pressure found nearly 1 km underwater on Earth.
Not a tourist destination for the most part.
Honestly this is way more intriguing than the usual colors that are portrayed for Venus. Thanks for sharing!!
Well, crap. I am planning a series of tie dye shirts based on the planets in our solar system. Looks like Venus is just gonna be a blank white one.
It looks like a typical smoggy Los Angeles morning.
It’s nice to know that Venus isn’t blank white and that the monochrome depiction was an overcorrection.