PIA02230: Northern Hemisphere of Saturn
 Target Name:  Saturn
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle
 Product Size:  480 x 410 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  P23062
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02230.tif (626.5 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02230.jpg (26.14 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This image of the northern hemisphere of Saturn was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 5, 1980 at a range of 9 million kilometers (5.5 million miles) shows a variety of features in Saturn's clouds: Small-scale convective cloud features are visible in the dark belt (center); an isolated convective cloud with a dark ring is seen in the lighter zone; and a longitudinal wave is visible in the brighter zone (right of center belt). The smallest features visible in this photograph are 175 kilometers (108.7 miles) across. The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1999-12-20