Globe & texture credits

No NASA endorsement is implied. Some maps are modified for real-time WebGL display. Never look at the Sun directly.

Sun

• Procedural photosphere / granulation / H-alpha look in Human Capsule (0 KB textures).
• Optional intensity references: Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams (no copyright; credit required; no endorsement).

Earth

• NASA Blue Marble / Black Marble / cloud layers — NASA Visible Earth.
• Street maps (where shown): © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Moon & planets

• Moon: LROC WAC mosaics (NASA / ASU).
• Mars: USGS Astrogeology Viking MDIM 2.1 (public domain).
• Jupiter: NASA PIA07782 (Cassini map).
• Saturn rings / Galilean moons / Titan / Pluto: NASA/USGS Cassini & New Horizons mosaics (public domain where stated).
• Mercury, Venus cloud deck, Uranus, Neptune: Solar System Scope textures — CC BY 4.0 (credit + licence; may be modified).

Stars

• NASA SVS Deep Star Maps 2020 — credit NASA/Goddard SVS + ESA/Gaia/DPAC where applicable.

Software

• three.js — MIT.
• astronomy-engine 2.1.19 — MIT (Don Cross / cosinekitty).

We do not self-host Björn Jónsson planetary maps. We avoid ESA “Gaia’s sky in colour” (CC BY-SA share-alike) for these pages.