The Places We've Been · Colophon
Sources &
credits
Everything in this atlas is real. Every image was taken by a spacecraft; every sound was recorded, not invented; every number comes from a mission. It is built entirely from public-domain and Creative-Commons material, hand-coded, with no tracking and no back-end. Where a world could not be honestly represented — a sound that was never released, a place we have never landed — it is left silent or absent on purpose. Here is where it all comes from.
Imagery
NASA / JPL-CaltechMars · Moon · Titan · Venus
Perseverance and Apollo surface photography, Cassini–Huygens views of Titan, and Magellan radar imagery of Venus. Sourced via NASA Images, the Photojournal and Wikimedia Commons.Public domain
ESA · Cassini–HuygensTitan descent
Descent and surface imagery returned by the Huygens probe on 14 January 2005.© ESA — reused with attribution
Solar System ScopePlanet & moon textures
The globe and orrery textures for the eight planets, the Moon and the Sun, from solarsystemscope.com/textures.CC BY 4.0
Venera programme · СССРVenus surface panoramas
The only photographs ever taken on the surface of Venus (Venera 9, 10, 13, 14 · 1975–1982), from the USSR Academy of Sciences, via Wikimedia Commons.Public domain
Lunar & Planetary InstituteVenera 13 / 14 panorama
The combined colour panorama of the two Venera landing sites.CC BY 2.0
Sound
NASA / JPL-CaltechMars · the first sound
Wind and the rover itself, recorded by Perseverance's microphones in Jezero Crater — the first sounds ever recorded on another planet by a spacecraft.Public domain
NASAMoon · Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong's first words from the surface, and “the Eagle has landed”, July 1969.Public domain
ESA · HuygensTitan · the wind
The acoustic recording of Titan's wind streaming past the probe during its descent — the only sound recorded on the surface of a world beyond the Moon.© ESA — reused with attribution
NASA / JPLEarth · Jupiter · Saturn
Plasma-wave and radio emissions recorded by spacecraft (Van Allen Probes, Cassini) and shifted into the range of human hearing.Public domain
Venusthe recording no one has heard
Venera 13 and 14 carried Groza microphones and, in 1982, registered the sound of Venus's wind — likely the first sound recorded on another planet. No verified recording was ever released, so Venus is left honestly silent here.Not available
Data & type
NASA planetary fact sheetsNumbers
Diameters, temperatures, day lengths and moon counts from the NSSDC planetary fact sheets.Public domain
Clash Display · SatoshiTypography
Display and body type by the Indian Type Foundry, via Fontshare. Monospace: JetBrains Mono.Free / OFL
Craft
InteractionInspiration
The drag-to-explore surface maps are modelled on the interaction of “21 Hrs on the Moon” (21hrs.space), reimagined for every world we've landed on.
Built withCode
Three.js, GSAP and Vite. Hand-written, static, no back-end and no trackers.