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Sources & image credits

Catalog snapshot: 16 September 2026. Assets are served locally. Image maps depict different mission dates, resolutions and color processing; unknown surface regions may be reconstructed. Surface textures are not live observations.

Orbital calculations & catalog

Planet maps

Solar System Scope / INOVE — CC BY 4.0. Mercury, Venus clouds, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Saturn rings, Uranus, Neptune, Earth day/night/cloud maps, Sun and Moon. NASA-derived mosaics, with reconstructed gaps and enhanced colors. Neptune is desaturated in the renderer; the Sun’s map is rendered with a pale visible-light tint. Maps are otherwise unmodified.

Pluto: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI, Pluto Global Color Map, New Horizons 2015 observations; enhanced color. Unobserved southern regions remain blank in the source map.

Moon maps

Retrieved unmodified from Celestia Content. Full upstream credits and JPL image-use notice, distribution license notice, and GPL license text are bundled. The following individual licenses supersede the repository defaults:

Images with individual Creative Commons licenses retain those licenses: CC BY 3.0, CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC0. Unmodified image files are distributed alongside these notices.

Original visualization

Three.js 0.180.0 — MIT, license. Shaders, camera, guide overlays, timeline and procedural proxy surfaces are original project code. Belt particles and background stars are schematic, not a catalog of individually measured positions.