Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> Samuel Benge wrote:
>
> > Mercury should be a steely though :)
>
> In all cases the texture is an actual map of the planet. Visual
> except for Venus (which uses a false-color radar altitude map).
>
> Are you referring to the high iron content?

Yeah.

> I actually
> forgot to mention that all glass marbles have a black
> sphere embedded representing the iron core. This is
> to scale but appears enlarged due to refraction.

Ah, I see them now.

> In the case of mercury it leads to polished stone look
> as the huge core prevents transparency and caustics. I'm
> also not so happy with the moon. The latter is actually
> quite transparent but due to its bland color appears
> more like stone than glass anyway.

The moon looks pretty good, though my favorites are Venus and Mars :)

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