Hello Mike,

I followed up your NASA JPL hint, and searched there (with their search 
engine) for "earth planetary maps" but the result contains many links. And 
no earth images.

I want to ask you if you could give me a more exact link, let's say, a web 
address. It would help me a lot. I am on a difficult, maybe as it seems even 
impossible quest for image maps of our earth with clouds and in high 
resolution, which I can use for a spherical texture.

Besides that, your planets look very good!

Greetings,

Sven



"Mike Sobers" <sob### [at] mindspringcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> David Brickell <d.b### [at] nospamgmailcom> wrote:
>>
>> Wow
>>
>> Really nice image.  I take it they are all to scale.
>>
>> Spent a little while just looking at the different sizes and reminded me
>> of relaxing one night with a few beers and friends looking at the clear
>> sky above.
>>
>> Nice image that puts thinks in perspective.
>>
>> Dave.
>
> Yes, all to scale.  Most people are surprised to find how much smaller 
> Pluto
> is than our own moon!
>
> Need to mention a few more credits:
> Planetary maps from NASA JPL and Bjorn Jonsson, with POV conversion of
> Saturn's rings by Sigmund Kyrre Aas.
>
> Mike
>

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"Sven Littkowski" <sve### [at] jamaica-focuscom> wrote:
> Hello Mike,
>
> I followed up your NASA JPL hint, and searched there (with their search
> engine) for "earth planetary maps" but the result contains many links. And
> no earth images.
>
> I want to ask you if you could give me a more exact link, let's say, a web
> address. It would help me a lot. I am on a difficult, maybe as it seems even
> impossible quest for image maps of our earth with clouds and in high
> resolution, which I can use for a spherical texture.
>
> Besides that, your planets look very good!
>
> Greetings,
>
> Sven
>

Thanks!

Try here:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/Images/BlueMarble_2005_SAm_09_4096.jpg

or http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/Images/

to choose from different resolutions.  You can even get a different image
for every month.

Mike

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Very interesting, it's strange to see how small is our planet.

It would be great to also have the satelites of the other planets (Mars 
has 2, Pluto 1, ans the giant planets have tenth).

Also, you might not know but a new planet was recently discovered, it's 
temporarily named Xena and has a satelite. It is still under discussion 
wether it is a asteroid or a planet, but it's bigger than pluto.
More info on: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/

Mike Sobers wrote:
> Actually, they're on the patio created by Jaime Vives Piqueres.  Thanks for
> the great panorama backdrop!
> 
> Comments/criticism/suggestions always welcome.
> 
> Mike
> 
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As far as I know, there are two or three objects in the Kuiper Belt that are
up for "planethood".  For now, I decided to stick with the traditional nine
since we don't _really_ know how big these others are or what they look
like.

Mike

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?sstr=2003+UB313&group=all

"JC (Exether)" <no### [at] spamfr> wrote:
> Very interesting, it's strange to see how small is our planet.
>
> It would be great to also have the satelites of the other planets (Mars
> has 2, Pluto 1, ans the giant planets have tenth).
>
> Also, you might not know but a new planet was recently discovered, it's
> temporarily named Xena and has a satelite. It is still under discussion
> wether it is a asteroid or a planet, but it's bigger than pluto.
> More info on: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/
>
> Mike Sobers wrote:
> > Actually, they're on the patio created by Jaime Vives Piqueres.  Thanks for
> > the great panorama backdrop!
> >
> > Comments/criticism/suggestions always welcome.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
>
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On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:28:32 EDT, "Mike Sobers"
<sob### [at] mindspringcom> wrote:

>Actually, they're on the patio created by Jaime Vives Piqueres.  Thanks for
>the great panorama backdrop!
>
>Comments/criticism/suggestions always welcome.
>
>Mike

I realise the image maps may be a bit big but any chance of you
posting the code

John

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Joh### [at] ntlworldcom wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:28:32 EDT, "Mike Sobers"
> <sob### [at] mindspringcom> wrote:
>
> >Actually, they're on the patio created by Jaime Vives Piqueres.  Thanks for
> >the great panorama backdrop!
> >
> >Comments/criticism/suggestions always welcome.
> >
> >Mike
>
> I realise the image maps may be a bit big but any chance of you
> posting the code
>
> John

Here's the code - sorry it's so kluged together but hopefully you can make
some sense of it.  All the planet image maps you'll need (though not
necessarily the ones I used) can be found here:
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/spaceart/planetcylmaps.html

Good luck!

Mike

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I love this...

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Mike,

Where are the saturn rings.inc ?

Could you please post that.

Thank you,

Bret

"Mike Sobers" <sob### [at] mindspringcom> wrote:
> Actually, they're on the patio created by Jaime Vives Piqueres.  Thanks for
> the great panorama backdrop!
>
> Comments/criticism/suggestions always welcome.
>
> Mike

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> Mike,
>
> Where are the saturn rings.inc ?
>
> Could you please post that.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bret

And you can withdraw Pluto now as yesterday it lost its planet status.

Marc

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Yea, I just read that yesterday, but it doesn't feel like home without it.
:-)

LOL

Thanks,

Bret

"Marc" <jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:

> web.44ef21edbb7e21841e8d0a330@news.povray.org...
> > Mike,
> >
> > Where are the saturn rings.inc ?
> >
> > Could you please post that.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Bret
>
> And you can withdraw Pluto now as yesterday it lost its planet status.
>
> Marc

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