This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the full two years of Magellan radar mapping are mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image.
Simulated color is used to enhance small-scale structure.
The twisting bright features that cross the globe from the lower left toward the upper right are the highly fractured mountains and canyons of the eastern Aphrodite highland. The image was produced by the Solar System visualization project and the Magellan Science team at the JPL Multimission Image Processing Laboratory. Lava flows extend for hundreds of kilometers across the fractured plains shown in the foreground to the base of Sapas Mons. The view is to the southeast with Sapas Mons appearing at the center with Maat Mons located in the background on the horizon. Sapas Mons is named for a Phoenician goddess.