The Astronomy Nexus

I've sometimes wondered what Venus would look like if we could get rid of the 90 atmospheres of carbon dioxide and let its oceans reform. I used POV-Ray and a utility called Orb, which creates spheres with relief. The view here is similar to that in the Magellan-mapped Venus in the Technical Renderings gallery, with Maxwell Montes on the northwest horizon and Aphrodite Terra off to the lower right. (BTW: I don't really know what the colors of the Venusian rocks are, so I picked an aesthetically pleasing fine-granite-like shading...)