Xplanet
Xplanet was inspired by Xearth, which renders an image of the earth into the X root window. All of the major planets and most satellites can be drawn, similar to JPL's Solar System Simulator. A number of different map projections are also supported, including azimuthal, Mercator, Mollweide, orthographic, and rectangular.
| Tags | Desktop Environment Scientific/Engineering Astronomy |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Windows Windows POSIX |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 13 May 2009 12:38
Changes: Minor accumulated feature enhancements were added.
- 16 Jun 2005 22:54
Changes: Bump mapping, the icosagnomonic projection, and tracking of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were added. Other minor bugfixes and features were made.
- 23 Jul 2004 13:19
Changes: Cloud maps from the Space Science and Engineering Center can be used.
- 21 Jun 2004 01:32
Changes: A -fork option was added to run the program in the background. A bug where stars were not drawn the first time when using the -proj option was fixed.
- 24 May 2004 00:54
Changes: A bug with drawing eclipse shadows was fixed.
