What is the true colour of Venus?

Question

I've done some research and I've found that the surface of Venus is a reddish-orangish colour. But in photos, Venus is usually represented with a blu-ish green-ish colour, similar to that of Earth. I have to do a project on it and I need to represent its true colours. Which one is it?

Answer 1

The colors are false. In order to bring up cloud detail in photographs, Venus is photographed with ultraviolet filters. This means the light is beyond that of normal vision. So the image is falsly colored. Blue is closer to violet, but the clouds actual color, to those who are able to catch them visually (very difficult!) is yellow-white.

Answer 2

The atmosphere of Venus is extremely thick and dense, so even though the lander missions found an orange or brown looking surface, the thick clouds of the atmosphere give a mainly white colour to the planet as a whole.

Venus is NOT similar to Earth in any way apart from superficial ones. Any image you have seen with blue and green will be a false-colour elevation map, to indicate the rough shape of the surface, with green areas higher than and blue areas lower than an arbitrarily decided zero elevation point. Don't pay any attention to it for ACTUAL colours of Venus.



I would imagine that you would want to depict the planet as seen from space, so it will have to look like a sphere of cloud.

Answer 3

Mmk, so the last orbiter to go to Venus was the European Space Agency probe called the Venus Express back in 2005. But the last lander was in 1984. It melted in minutes. The simple facts are that the cameras on orbiters and landers sucked back then, and getting true pictures of the surface would've been near impossible. So they settled for the next best thing.

Answer 4

Id assume its reddish orange because that's how its always portrayed. If you cant find and information online and you run out of time, Id go with reddish-orange since that's the normal representation of it.

Answer 5

The true color of the surface orange to brown. The true color of the clouds is white or yellow white, Your going to have to make up your own mind whether you want to use the true color of the surface or the clouds.

Answer 6

I wouldn't know, but I did a google search, and here's a good site:



http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=59



Good luck! Hope I helped!

Answer 7

The blue is taken in a different spectrum of light the accual color is orangish

Answer 8

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=photo+of+Venus&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g2



clik on the dots...



http://kids.nineplanets.org/fotov.htm