Laika's Celestia addons

Welcome to Laika's Celestia add-ons, my small attempt to give back to the Celestia community. I can be contacted at laika@laika.012webpages.com

16k Moon

This 16k texture for Earth's moon is a merging of the high-resolution Clementine mission (BMDO/NASA) greyscale mosaic map with a medium resolution Clementine color mosaic map for color, color corrected to better match lunar astrophotography. Unlike previous Moon textures, the Clementine color data has been mapped to correct RGB channels. Thanks to Mark Robinson (Northwestern U) for making the source materials available.

A 1600x1200 screenshot of the near full moon
A 1600x1200 screenshot from southwest of Tycho Crater
Download the zipped .dds (59 MB)

4k Io

This 4k texture for Io is a merging of a high-resolution true color hemisphere imaged by the Galileo mission (JPL/NASA)), a high-resolution greyscale mosaic of Io by Tony Rosanova (USGS Flagstaff), and three lower resolution color images of Io from the Galileo mission (JPL/NASA). The current version uploaded 04/02/26 has been offset 176 pixels to correct an error Toti noted on the Celestia BB. Thanks.

A 1600x1200 screenshot of the 100% Galileo antijovian hemisphere
A 1600x1200 screenshot of the merged projovian hemisphere
Download the zipped .dds (4 MB)
Download the .png for computers with older video cards(8.8 MB)

Works in Progress

A port of my Home Planet Earth textures for Orbiter in Celestia format - I've decided since starting the conversion that only .png VTs make sense here.
32k Earth lights & clouds as virtual textures
Revised 16 Moon texture & bumpmap, as virtual textures
New 8k Mercury texture
Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemisty, and Ranging) mission
Mariner 10 mission to Venus and Mercury