CREDITS

What this site is built from.

The orbit on the front page is drawn from public data and open-source code. This page names every source, with its licence and the credit line its owner asks for. Everything is served from this site's own address: nothing is loaded from anyone else's servers.

Earth

The maps are NASA's, cut, resampled and compressed for this site. Each credit line is NASA's own wording, copied from the page that carries the data. NASA does not endorse this site, and no NASA emblem is used on it.

Day side

Blue Marble: Next Generation, the December base map.

Anyone using or republishing Blue Marble: Next Generation please credit “NASA Earth Observatory.”

City lights at night

Black Marble 2016, the greyscale map, and its 500 m tile over Europe for the pass over Ljubljana. The amber colour is added here.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA GSFC.

Clouds

The Blue Marble cloud layer. No cloud was painted out or moved.

Image by Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow water, clouds). Enhancements by Robert Simmon (ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation).

Relief

Land elevation, turned into the surface's slopes.

Imagery by Jesse Allen, NASA's Earth Observatory, using data from the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) produced by the British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Stars

The 9,096 stars of the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, each at its catalogued place, brightness and colour, as packaged by the atmosphere library named below.

The Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Preliminary Version). Hoffleit D., Warren Jr W.H. Astronomical Data Center, NSSDC/ADC (1991).

The spacecraft

AS-01 is this studio's own design, modelled and textured by script in Blender. It is not a real vehicle and copies none: no agency's or company's markings appear on it. The dish points at the ground stations of the European Space Agency's tracking network, at their public positions; the agency has no part in this site. The look of the Earth and of the craft was judged against NASA photographs, which are not reproduced here.

Typefaces

Both families are served from this site as subsets cut from the original files, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Archivo: Copyright 2020 The Archivo Project Authors (https://github.com/Omnibus-Type/Archivo) The licence. Also the lettering on the craft.
Martian Mono: Copyright 2021 The Martian Mono Project Authors (https://github.com/evilmartians/mono) The licence.

Code

The site's own code and design are by Pino Lukežič, written with Anthropic's Claude. It stands on these libraries, each served from this site with its licence beside it.

three.js 0.186.1: Copyright © 2010-2026 three.js authors The renderer. MIT License. With it come fflate (Copyright (c) 2023 Arjun Barrett, MIT), ktx-parse and zstddec (Copyright (c) 2020 Don McCurdy, MIT), the Zstandard decoder (Copyright (c) 2016-present, Yann Collet, Facebook, Inc., BSD), meshoptimizer (Copyright (c) 2016-2026 Arseny Kapoulkine, MIT) and the Basis Universal transcoder (Copyright 2016-2026 Binomial LLC, Apache License 2.0). All of their licences.
three-atmosphere 0.19.1: Copyright (c) 2024 Shota Matsuda The sky and the air, from Takram. MIT License. It builds on Precomputed Atmospheric Scattering (Copyright (c) 2017 Eric Bruneton; Copyright (c) 2008 INRIA; BSD), and on work by Epic Games, Inc. (Copyright (c) 2020, MIT) and Intel Corporation (Copyright 2017, Apache License 2.0). All of their licences.
three-geospatial 0.9.1: Copyright (c) 2024 Shota Matsuda The atmosphere library's foundation, from Takram. MIT License. It builds on work by Sony Interactive Entertainment (Copyright 2023, Apache License 2.0). The licences.

The noise that hides the steps of the atmosphere's ray march is this site's own, made with the void-and-cluster method (Robert Ulichney, 1993).

The demo sites

The three demos under Work are self-initiated concept builds for fictional brands. Each serves its own fonts from its own folder, as subsets under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and smooth scrolling by Lenis.

Inter: Copyright 2020 The Inter Project Authors (https://github.com/rsms/inter) Cadence. The licence.
Space Grotesk: Copyright 2020 The Space Grotesk Project Authors (https://github.com/floriankarsten/space-grotesk) Cadence. The licence.
Cormorant Garamond: Copyright 2015 the Cormorant Project Authors (github.com/CatharsisFonts/Cormorant) Cinder & Stave. The licence.
Jost: Copyright 2020 The Jost Project Authors (https://github.com/indestructible-type) Cinder & Stave. The licence.
Manrope: Copyright 2018 The Manrope Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/manrope) Timbre. The licence.
Lenis 1.3.26: Copyright (c) 2024 darkroom.engineering MIT License. The licence.

Tools

None of these is served to you; they built what is. Blender, for the craft. KTX-Software, for the textures. glTF Transform and meshoptimizer, for the model. HarfBuzz, by way of subset-font, for the fonts. esbuild, for the libraries. Playwright and axe-core, for the tests.

LAST CHECKED 30 SEPTEMBER 2026