Voyager 2 Saturn Images – Saturn northern hemisphere mosaic

Saturn northern hemisphere mosaic
A mosaic of 8 green filtered Voyager 2 narrow angle images obtained on August 21, 1981 when Voyager 2 was 4.9 million km from Saturn. The mosaic has been colorized from a lower resolutiom orange/green/blue color composite obtained at roughly the same time. The color should be fairly close to Saturn‘s true color.

Saturn northern hemisphere mosaic

Saturn northern hemisphere mosaic (sharpened)

Wide angle context view

A color composite created from orange/green/blue images obtained by Voyager 2 with its wide angle camera at roughly the same time as the higher resolution narrow angle images used in the above mosaic.
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