Imagery & credits

Planetary surfaces and Milky Way

Textures by Solar System Scope / INOVE, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Includes the Sun, planets, Earth’s night lights, the Moon and Milky Way backdrop.

Adapted for an interactive 3D scene with lighting, color rendering, resizing and transparency treatments. Sizes, orbital spacing and brightness may be adjusted for exploration. Solar System Scope does not endorse this project.

NASA imagery and models

Additional moon surfaces and space-station models are credited in their destination views. NASA imagery does not imply NASA endorsement.

Dwarf planets

Pluto: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI New Horizons mosaic; unmapped regions are shown plain. Ceres: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Dawn mosaic. Eris, Haumea and Makemake use illustrative surfaces, not spacecraft maps.

Ganymede: NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development (VTAD). The original textured glTF model is bundled locally, uniformly normalized to the catalog mean radius, and rendered with the scene’s illustrative lighting and orbital orientation.

Additional moon imagery

NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development (VTAD): Io, Europa, Callisto, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Iapetus, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Triton. Source geometry and UVs retained; color maps encoded as high-quality JPEG with smaller previews for distant views. Image coverage and resolution vary. Titan depicts its hazy atmosphere. Seven smaller Neptune moons use the NASA/JPL Eyes generic asteroid model, adapted to catalog proportions. These are illustrative models; their surface details are unknown. Color and normal textures are retained, with no claim of measured terrain.

Detailed dwarf surfaces

NASA / VTAD models: Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake. Ceres is a Dawn surface reconstruction. Eris, Haumea and Makemake are artistic models; surface details are unknown. Original UVs and normal maps retained, color maps re-encoded as high-quality JPEG, shapes adapted to catalog display proportions. Pluto uses the NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI global mosaic at 4096×2048; unmapped areas remain plain. No NASA endorsement implied.

Narration

AI narration using the licensed Adam Stone voice from ElevenLabs.