🌍 Planet Surface 3D Explorer

Land on every world like an astronaut with a telescope: a real 3D sphere you can spin, tilt and zoom, textured per planet from real features — Mercury's craters, Venus's hidden iron-peaked clouds, Earth's oceans and storm bands, Mars's giant shield volcano, Jupiter's belts and Great Red Spot, Saturn's icy rings, the ice giants' methan azure.

DRAG TO SPIN · SCROLL TO ZOOM
Rotation Speed0.30 rev/s
Axial Tilt (real obliquity)23.4°
Sunlight Angle35°
Feature LabelsON
🔬 How the 3D texture is generated (real data)

Each planet gets a procedurally painted texture from its real surface/atmosphere recipe: Mercury from cratered terrain via fractal noise, Venus with its sulphuric-acid cloud deck and reversed spin, Earth as a real ocean–land–cloud map, Mars with the Tharsis bulge and polar ice caps, Jupiter with its banded zonal jets (drawn from the real latitudinal bands) and the Great Red Spot, Saturn with soft pale bands and its 10 m-thick ice rings, and the ice giants in their methane haze. Lighting is a true Lambert term: brightness ∝ cos(angle between surface normal and sunlight) — the same physics that makes Venus show a bright crescent phase in a telescope.