type-two 07993c77ff feat: Solar System mode — 'Travel to' the planets (Wave 4)

New '◉ Solar System' mode: leaves the Earth OSINT globe and renders a
heliocentric orrery — Sun + 8 planets as spheres textured with real (CC BY 4.0,
self-hosted) imagery, at their TRUE current positions (Schlyter series, incl.
Uranus/Neptune), with orbits. A 'Travel to…' panel flies the camera to any body;
'Return to Earth' restores the full OSINT view (globe, all layers, clock, camera,
frustum, lighting — all saved/restored). Planets exaggerated + distances
compressed for a readable orrery; Saturn ring; camera headlight for even lighting;
far plane widened to 8e9 (default 5e8 would clip the whole system).

Textures harvested from Solar System Scope (CC BY 4.0), self-hosted in textures/
(WebGL taints cross-origin), credited in-app + README + textures/TEXTURES_CREDIT.md.

Components verified in-browser (ellipsoids render, positions correct, mode
enter/exit, UI, textures). Full-orrery screenshot pending a real GPU frame — the
headless preview can't complete async worker geometry (backgrounded tab clamps).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-21 10:19:21 +10:00

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Equirectangular surface/cloud maps for the Solar System mode.

Source: Solar System Scope — © INOVE / Solar System Scope. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Files: 2k_{sun,mercury,venus_atmosphere,earth_daymap,moon,mars,jupiter,saturn,uranus,neptune}.jpg, 2k_saturn_ring_alpha.png.

Attribution is also shown in-app (Solar System mode footer) and in the project README.

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