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Venus seen by Galileo spacecraft

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

a-ven07-00001

Date

2006-09-30

This colorized picture of Venus was taken February 14, 1990, from a distance of almost 1.7 million miles, about 6 days after Galileo's closest approach to the planet. It has been colorized to a bluish hue to emphasize subtle contrasts in the cloud markings and to indicate that it was taken through a violet filter.