Acknowledgments

Credits

Solar System Explorer is built on the work of scientists, mission teams, and open-source contributors who made their data and imagery available to the world. This page acknowledges those contributions.

Texture & Imagery Credits

Solar System Scope

Planetary texture maps used throughout the simulator.
CC BY 4.0

NASA / JPL-Caltech

New Horizons Pluto + Charon imagery · Mars MOLA elevation data · MESSENGER Mercury imagery · Cassini Saturn imagery · Voyager imagery. All NASA imagery is in the public domain.
Public Domain

NASA Visible Earth

Blue Marble Earth imagery · Black Marble city lights (night side).
Public Domain

Steve Albers

Galilean moon texture maps (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto).

Björn Jónsson

Planetary and moon texture maps.
Public Domain

ESO / S. Brunier

Milky Way panorama starfield background.
CC BY 4.0

HYG Database

Star catalog used for star field rendering.
CC BY-SA 2.5

Technology

Three.js

3D rendering engine

Cloudflare Workers

Hosting & edge delivery

Claude AI (Anthropic)

AI development partner

Fable (Anthropic)

Agentic coding tool

Solar System Explorer is an independent project by Kyle Ewing / IT PROJECT MGMT, LLC. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by NASA, JPL, ESA, or any government space agency. All NASA imagery and data is used under NASA's open data policy for educational and non-commercial purposes.