Sources & Credits
Solar Atlas is an independent visualization. NASA and JPL do not endorse this project.
Planetary imagery
- Sun: procedural 3D photosphere colour-calibrated to NASA SDO/AIA 171.
- Mercury: NASA MESSENGER global mosaic, distributed by USGS Astrogeology.
- Venus: NASA Magellan colorized radar mosaic, USGS Astrogeology.
- Earth: NASA Visible Earth / Blue Marble; Black Marble night lights; NASA cloud composite.
- Mars: NASA/JPL/USGS Viking MDIM 2.1 and MOLA, USGS Astrogeology.
- Jupiter and Saturn: NASA Cassini global mosaics, USGS Astrogeology.
- Uranus and Neptune: Voyager 2 / Hubble simulated global mosaics, USGS Astrogeology.
- Ceres: NASA Dawn; Pluto: NASA New Horizons; both distributed by USGS Astrogeology.
- Stars: NASA SVS, Deep Star Maps 2020.
Orbits, moons and small bodies
- Dwarf-planet and comet orbital elements: JPL Small-Body Database.
- Major-moon sizes, orbit radii and periods: NASA/JPL planetary satellite fact sheets.
- Kuiper Belt, scattered disc, heliosphere and Oort Cloud ranges: NASA Science, plus Voyager crossing data.
- Asteroid classes: NASA Science asteroid facts. The displayed percentages are approximate spectral-survey fractions.
- Saturn ring bands: NASA Saturn fact sheets. The 3D ring texture is illustrative.
- Spacecraft distances and bearings: public NASA Eyes on the Solar System Dynamo ephemerides (J2000 equatorial control points), converted locally to ecliptic scene coordinates.
- Planet positions and orbit samples: Astronomy Engine; dwarf/comet nodes remain epoch snapshots.
Software
- Three.js and OrbitControls: MIT License.
- React and React DOM: MIT License.
- Astronomy Engine: MIT License.
- KTX2/Basis Universal transcoder: Apache License 2.0; Basis Universal encoder is used only at build time.
- Sentry and Web Vitals: MIT/BSD-style open-source licenses; Sentry is enabled only when the operator configures a DSN.
- Metropolis typeface: SIL Open Font License 1.1, copyright © 2015 Chris Simpson. The bundled font files are from the NASA Eyes solar-system distribution.
- Vite: MIT License.
NASA media
NASA content is generally not subject to copyright in the United States. NASA names, insignia and logotypes remain protected and are not used here. See the NASA media guidelines.
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