The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus. Magellan obtained coverage of 98 percent of the surface of Venus.
Simulated color is used to enhance small-scale structures.
The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Venera 13 and 14 landing craft. Other terrain types visible in this image include tessera, ridge belts, lava flows, impact craters and coronae. The image was produced by the Solar System Visualization Project and the Magellan Science Team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Multimission Image Processing Laboratory. The Magellan mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science.