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Six sequences of images (in false color) taken by the Ultraviolet/ Visible/ Near-Infrared spectrometer (VIRTIS) on board ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft between 12 and 19 April 2006, during the first orbit, or ‘capture orbit’, around the planet.
