Log On Globe is built on public data sources, open-source software, and third-party assets. Thanks to everyone behind them.
Earth imagery
The day and night textures used to render the globe are based on NASA's Blue Marble / Visible Earth imagery. Its relief is computed from ETOPO 2022, the global relief model of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (public domain). The ground around the launch pads comes from the aerial photographs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP, public domain). For Apollo 11, the ground of LC-39A is a 1969 aerial photograph by the USDA, from the University of Florida Digital Collections (public domain). At Vandenberg, where those photographs are masked, the ground of SLC-4E is drawn from the U.S. Geological Survey's 2018 lidar survey (public domain), coloured with Copernicus Sentinel-2 data (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2021). In Kourou, where the Guiana Space Centre is masked in today's aerial photographs, the ground of ELA-3 is the 2001 orthophoto of the French Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (© IGN, CC BY 4.0). The launch pads' structures are placed from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL).
Planetary maps
The Mars surface texture is by Solar System Scope, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, with its baked-in shading removed; Mars' relief comes from the laser altimeter (MOLA) of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. Gale crater's relief, where Curiosity lands, is the USGS's blend of MOLA with the stereo camera (HRSC) of ESA's Mars Express, and the ground around the rover is the Curiosity team's own basemap, from the HiRISE camera of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, mosaicked by the USGS). The blast zones its sky crane's engines scoured around it are measured on a HiRISE image taken eleven days after the landing (ESP_028401_1755, NASA/JPL/University of Arizona). Jezero crater's relief, where Perseverance drives, is the same blend, and the ground along the rover's route is the Mars 2020 team's HiRISE elevation model and orthophoto (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, mosaicked by the USGS); on the crater's western rim, where those maps stop, it is the elevation model of the CTX camera of the same orbiter (NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems, mosaicked by the USGS) with a HiRISE image laid on it. The Moon's colour and relief come from NASA's CGI Moon Kit (NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio), built from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's camera (LROC) and laser altimeter (LOLA). Tranquility Base's relief, where Apollo 11 lands, is SLDEM2015, NASA Goddard's blend of LOLA with the Terrain Camera of JAXA's SELENE (Kaguya) probe, mosaicked by the USGS, and the ground around the Eagle is the elevation model of the site made from LROC's narrow-angle camera images, its craterlets read off the same camera's orthophoto (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University). The Moon's south pole, where Artemis IV lands on the rim of Shackleton crater, is LOLA's own south polar elevation models, their tracks co-registered by Barker and colleagues (NASA Goddard's Planetary Geodesy Data Archive). The Jupiter map is NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute's global map, built from images taken by the Cassini probe in December 2000 (PIA07782). The Mercury map is by Solar System Scope too, from NASA's MESSENGER mosaic, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The Saturn map and its ring texture are by Solar System Scope too, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The Uranus map is built from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images of October 2025, from the OPAL program (Simon et al.): its colour from the visible filters, its cloud detail from the near-infrared ones, enhanced about ninefold so its storms show. The Neptune map is adapted from Solar System Scope's (CC BY 4.0): recoloured to Neptune's true colour after Irwin et al. (2024), with the dark spots of 1989 removed. The Europa map is the USGS global mosaic of Galileo and Voyager images (USGS Astrogeology, NASA/JPL), coloured from two natural-colour views taken by the Galileo probe (NASA/JPL/DLR, PIA00502 and PIA01295). The Ganymede map is the USGS global mosaic of Voyager and Galileo images (USGS Astrogeology, NASA/JPL), coloured from two natural-colour views, one by the Galileo probe and one by Voyager 1 (NASA/JPL, PIA00716 and PIA00353). Around Europa Clipper's crater, the ground is twice as sharp, from the same mosaic at full resolution; its relief, from the crater's terraced walls down to the metre, is modelled: no image or elevation model of the site is fine enough. The Sun's surface map is built from a full solar rotation of images taken in May 2014 at 304 Å by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA science team), retrieved through Helioviewer.
Star maps
The Milky Way and star background comes from Deep Star Maps 2020 by the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, built on Gaia DR2 (ESA/Gaia/DPAC).
Location search
Place search is powered by Komoot's Photon geocoding service, built on data from OpenStreetMap contributors.
Event summaries
Background information shown for notable events is fetched from Wikipedia.
Satellite tracking data
International Space Station orbital elements are provided by CelesTrak. The Mars rovers' positions and routes are NASA/JPL-Caltech's, from the rover-location maps of their missions.
Open-source technology
Log On Globe is built with Next.js, React, Three.js, React Three Fiber and drei, Material UI, and next-intl, among other open-source projects.
Deep-sky imagery
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) image is by Benjamin Inouye, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) image is courtesy of NASA and ESA (Hubble Space Telescope) and is in the public domain. The Orion Nebula (M42), Crab Nebula (M1), Sombrero Galaxy (M104) and Hercules globular cluster (M13) images are courtesy of NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and are in the public domain. The Lagoon Nebula (M8) image is by ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R. Gendler, U.G. Jørgensen and K. Harpsøe, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
3D models
The 3D models in the tracking and scene views come from the Sketchfab community and from NASA, under the licences below:
“67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/67pchuryumovgerasimenko-593cdd9d19c44c93ac774c13392969b9) by Bruno is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Ariane 5 model” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ariane-5-model-88a1de562245402da653bc1ae92b1b91) by bobymonsuta is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Atlas_V_401” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/atlas-v-401-b653a17bf47a47f58a29f716a6d38945) by yuvi45554 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Beagle Heavy Lifter” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/beagle-heavy-lifter-57e00474020a455e850ba7f7e8388005) by james09987 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Didymos and Dimorphos printable shape models” (https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Outreach/Printable-Models/) by NASA / Johns Hopkins APL is in the public domain.
“Europa Clipper Downloadable 3D Model” (https://science.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/europa-clipper-resources/europa-clipper-downloadable-3d-model/) by NASA/JPL-Caltech is in the public domain.
“Falcon 9 - SpaceX” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/falcon-9-spacex-394f7cf52d124bbd9db69f24d1ff2f08) by Stanley Creative is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Falcon 9 & Launching Pad” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/falcon-9-launching-pad-e957a9dbb45146e0946e16f2cb12c827) by Aashish_3D is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Hubble SM4 Carriers” (https://github.com/nasa/NASA-3D-Resources/tree/master/3D%20Models/Hubble%20SM4%20Carriers) by NASA is in the public domain.
“Hubble space telescope” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/hubble-space-telescope-e22236fab9634c959c0525c7ab9c83d7) by Cybertron B-127 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Ingenuity Mars helicopter” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ingenuity-mars-helicopter-0d5bdd6b28bb469ea99cc9a74e06169a) by Cybertron B-127 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
“International Space Station (ISS) (D) (IGOAL)” (https://science.nasa.gov/3d-resources/international-space-station-iss-d-igoal) by NASA JSC Integrated Graphics, Operations, and Analysis Laboratory is in the public domain.
“James Webb Space Telescope” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/james-webb-space-telescope-c5addca8cba14edfa346fda22442bc37) by Isaac Kishibe is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Lunar Command Module” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/lunar-command-module-99718b8b6d3e420a98e9e2a85d8c4baf) by rhcreations is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“MARS2020 skycrane” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mars2020-skycrane-036ea414b0bd4cb0a8ec1bffdadd0962) by jumpjack is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Mobile Launcher (assembled)” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mobile-launcher-assembled-cf8d9b6d81834e429ef9d6f7c3876c88) by kaosoravich is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Moon Landing” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/moon-landing-67e8a3ea5fbe42f4a6cb6c96cf406df4) by BlackProject is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“NASA Curiosity (Clean)” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/nasa-curiosity-clean-0696a383f3e841d2b5c7636ee8a58aba) by Thomas Flynn is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/nasa-dart-double-asteroid-redirection-test) by brianpeiris is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“NASA SLS Block 1 Crew V4” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/nasa-sls-block-1-crew-v4-2d521014700b44dbbc7662f648974e98) by Clarence365 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Parker Solar Probe” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/parker-solar-probe-ff03f130b6e84d5c8bb17529d745c67a) by Aksana3D is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Perseverance - NASA Mars Landing 2021” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/perseverance-nasa-mars-landing-2021-c1c94e1f69df45eeae4a0a1d0d27e85b) by Thomas Flynn is licensed under Creative Commons CC0 (public domain). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
“Rosetta с текстурами” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/rosetta-91302f8a8ff04e07b4b4207c151c771e) by timofeyr0 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Saturn V - NASA” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/saturn-v-nasa-7a2c9709ff8144c8b3b18ec84b5e112e) by Stanley Creative is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives.
“SATURN V & LAUNCH COMPLEX” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/saturn-v-launch-complex-61b48e7a6c384e17ae1681c50d8e67b6) by Adastra is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Space Shuttle Atlantis” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/space-shuttle-atlantis-d737e7f897ac4327ab606265a7820151) by andersan_unknown is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Space Shuttle Challenger” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/space-shuttle-challenger-d952c385127a4fb090b1ed14db8c8a02) by SPACE UNITED is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Gantry” (https://science.nasa.gov/3d-resources/gantry/) by NASA is in the public domain.
“SpaceX Dragon 2 Exterior” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/spacex-dragon-2-exterior-2575398db20c406cab2cf72b89a9be8b) by Forest Katsch is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“SpaceX Falcon 9 Strongback” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/spacex-falcon-9-strongback-854921c608784624ad2af042a24fded4) by Thor's Hammer is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“SpaceX Falcon Heavy V4” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/spacex-falcon-heavy-v4-a91bccdf8e624997892bab2f0fbec28f) by Clarence365 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“SpaceX Starship Ship S25 & Booster 9” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/spacex-starship-ship-s25-booster-9-f76be07d358f454b8396d4e8f1cc5329) by clarence365 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
“Walking Astronaut” (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/walking-astronaut-78e0b73ac3d7467294e167a710c9adce) by rayleighsyafiq is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
Music
The music you hear in the scenes is by these artists:
“Monumental Journey” by Jesse Gallagher, YouTube Audio Library (no attribution required).
“Take Off and Shoot a Zero” (http://chriszabriskie.com/stuntisland/) by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
“Satya Yuga” by Jesse Gallagher, YouTube Audio Library (no attribution required).
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