# Earth textures

Earth day, night, and cloud maps by Solar System Scope / INOVE, based on NASA imagery.

Source: https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Day map: the 1024px version distributed at https://github.com/homer-jay/solar-system-textures/blob/master/earth_daymap.jpg
Cloud and night maps: original 2k textures from Solar System Scope.
Terrain bump and ocean specular maps: derived topography relief and water reflectance masks generated from the day map.

The textures are used on a rendered globe with physically plausible lighting, terrain bump mapping, specular ocean sheen, cloud shadows, atmosphere, city markers, and illustrative connection paths. Those paths do not represent live customer data.