High!

Onward it goes with the Saturnian system... this is Prometheus, an 
irregularly shaped small moon orbiting at the outer edge of the ring 
system (precisely: it's the inner shepherd moon of the F-ring). The mesh 

(available at http://www.solarviews.org/cap/sat/prometh3.htm - I hope 
that there will be a more accurate model in the nearer future, as 
Cassini since has imaged Prometheus and other small inner moons at a 
much higher detail level).

Yes, the rings... currently they are really not satisfying when it comes 
to close zooms. As I mentioned before, I hope to construct them later on 
from hundreds or even thousands of single rings based on a more accurate 


I also added a provisional "level of detail" feature to avoid the 
lengthy mesh parsing when the camera is too far from Prometheus (like I 
already did with Martian Phobos and Deimos and the Jovian moon Amalthea)

See you in Khyberspace

Yadgar

Now playing: Meister der Angst (Ihre Kinder) - a German version of Bob 
Dylan's Masters Of War

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