Northern Hemisphere of Saturn
Photograph
Northern Hemisphere of Saturn
November 5, 1980
Chromogenic development print
Image: 7 5/8 × 7 11/16 in. (19.4 × 19.5 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Matted: 14 × 17 × 1/8 in. (35.6 × 43.2 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of NASA
Inscriptions verso (applied label, typed): PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE/JET PROPULSION LABORATORY/CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION/PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, 91109. TELEPHONE: (213) 354-5011/PHOTO CAPTION (TOP) P-23062 C-BW/ S-1-15/ Nov. 7, 1980/ This enhanced color image of the northern hemisphere of/ Saturn taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on November 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 brown belt; an isolated convective/ cloud with a dark ring is seen in the light brown zone; and/ a longitudinal wave is visible in the light blue region./ 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./###
