EARTH JOURNEY — IMAGE & SOFTWARE CREDITS

Day, night and cloud maps: Solar System Scope / INOVE
https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Based on NASA imagery, including Blue Marble. This use is not endorsed by NASA or INOVE.

Original local 2K equirectangular files (same UV alignment):
https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/download/2k_earth_daymap.jpg
https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/download/2k_earth_nightmap.jpg
https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/download/2k_earth_clouds.jpg

Changes: rendered on a sphere, dynamically lit and composited with twilight,
night-side city light emission, clouds, atmosphere and route overlays.
These maps are illustrative composites, not live weather or January 2026 imagery.

Renderer: Three.js 0.180.0, MIT license; see /assets/vendor/three-LICENSE.txt.

Implementation references (adapted; no embedded demo or runtime CDN):
https://github.com/vasturiano/react-globe.gl
https://github.com/vasturiano/react-globe.gl/blob/master/example/day-night-cycle/index.html
https://github.com/vasturiano/react-globe.gl/blob/master/example/random-arcs/index.html
https://threejs.org/docs/
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/earth-at-night/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/DateTimeFormat
Solar equations: https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/calcdetails.html