Betawise Globe

Betawise Globe variants

• Betawise Globe — Earth

  The authored globe: Natural Earth's coastlines dotted over a dark ocean, great-circle flight paths running between two dozen cities, and a starfield thinned around the limb — landing on the same pull-back the four derived worlds use.

• Betawise Globe — Moon

  One grey and nothing else: the maria at their real selenographic centres, three octaves of impact cratering over near side and far side alike, and Tycho's ray system thrown clear across the disc.

• Betawise Globe — Mars

  The albedo map a small telescope shows — Syrtis Major, Hellas, Solis Lacus — over an impact record: twenty named craters and basins at their real radii, three octaves of unnamed ones thinning northward across the crustal dichotomy, the Tharsis volcanoes with a bright shield and a dark caldera, and a seasonal cap at each pole.

• Betawise Globe — Saturn

  The zonal flow banding the globe, and Cassini's own ring radii rebuilt on the flight-path layer: every route becomes one short chip of ice, and the comet that used to run a route becomes the glint that crosses it.

• Betawise Globe — Sun

  Granulation over the supergranular network, spot groups with an umbra inside a penumbra inside a ring of faculae, and the routes regrown as prominence arcades with plasma climbing one leg of each loop and falling down the other.