I've been toying with possible CGSphere submissions. This wasn't my first
idea, but I was idly playing with planetary textures, and then managed to
get an exponential media atmosphere working. So I knocked up this view of
Io. The atmosphere effect is, of course, terribly hollywood and not at all
physically feasible, but I think it looks quite cool.

Jupiter is the correct distance away relative to Io's size, but I've moved
it up and along for aesthetic reasons, so Io isn't orbiting Jupiter's
equator any more. And someone's parked a dirty great black cosmic penknife
in the foreground.

But I'm not sure if I like it enough to submit it... anybody have any
suggestions for making it a little more Wow?

Bill

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