Figure 11-23: R I V U X G
A Venusian Landscape (a) This wide-angle color photograph from Venera 13 shows the rocky surface of Venus. The thick atmosphere absorbs the blue component of sunlight, giving the image an orange tint: The stripes on the spacecraft’s color calibration bar that appear yellow are actually white in color. (b) This color-corrected view shows that the rocks are actually gray in color. The rocky plates covering the ground may be fractured segments of a thin layer of lava.
A Venusian Landscape (a) This wide-angle color photograph from Venera 13 shows the rocky surface of Venus. The thick atmosphere absorbs the blue component of sunlight, giving the image an orange tint: The stripes on the spacecraft’s color calibration bar that appear yellow are actually white in color. (b) This color-corrected view shows that the rocks are actually gray in color. The rocky plates covering the ground may be fractured segments of a thin layer of lava.
(a: NSSDC/NASA; b: GSFC/NASA)