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Monday, February 15, 2021

3D Maps Of Saturn's Moons


The New York Times has created WebGL globes of all of Saturn's moons. Mapping Saturn's Moons uses imagery captured yesteryear NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Since 2004 the Cassini orbiter has been collecting information on Saturn together with its 62 moons. The Times has used around of this information to practise WebGL globes of Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan together with Iapetus.

If you lot bring a WebGL enabled browser you lot tin interact amongst each of these 7 Saturn Luna globes. You tin rotate the globes together with sentiment the names of major craters together with regions on each of the moons. Each of the WebGL globes is accompanied amongst a brief introductory text nearly the selected moon.