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Grand Tour Google Earth Megaoverlay Set, Massive overlay set of Solar System
Antdoghalo
post Sep 21 2020, 01:56 PM
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NOTE: DUE TO FORUM ATTACHMENT SIZE LIMIT, I HAD TO SEPARATE THIS OVERLAY SET INTO MANY POSTS, YOU WILL HAVE TO CHECK THE REPLIES BELOW AND DOWNLOAD THE PLANETS INDIVIDUALLY (Venus, Moon, Mars is in multiple sections due to particularly large size of their sets and to make room for future updates like new models for future landers)

The Grand Tour overlay is an overlay set of the Solar System I have been developing overtime since 2010. The initial overlay set was lost in 2010 in a hard drive failure and for years I just forgot about it. In 2015, I had much time on my hands and I began work to redo the project better than before. I was close to completion before college courses ramped up and I forgot to finish it. In 2020 due to well... "Terrestrial Events" I had an excess of time to work on stuff and I finally got around to finishing the overlay set bigger and better than I even imagined it in 2015. This probably took several hundred hours to compile.

I have always wanted to share this overlay set on UMSF since it uses a lot of contributions by members here like maps, overlay sets, and even models.

This overlay set contains:
Overlays of 67 additional planetary objects
Models of 40 landers and images from many of them
IAU approved nomenclature for 45 objects
1,000 geolocated NASA Photojournal images
Atmospheric effects for Venus, Titan, Triton, and Pluto


This is just a thing introducing and explaining how the overlay set works since it's really big. The downloads for the planets themselves are in replies below and in the next page.

Attached File  Grand_Tour_Introduction.kmz ( 7.32K ) Number of downloads: 627

To organize this overlay set, create a folder, SET TO "Show contents as options" and place the downloads found below in the replies into it. Venus, Moon, and Mars have a parent folder in the overlays download where you can also put the spacecraft, nomenclature, and NASA photojournal downloads. You should end up with a folder with subfolders for Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Mars moons, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Dwarf planets, Asteroids, comets, and extra.


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post Sep 21 2020, 01:58 PM
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Mercury, includes overlay set and nomenclature

Attached File  Mercury.kmz ( 87.6K ) Number of downloads: 601


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:01 PM
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Venus Overlays, includes surface, clouds, and science based overlays.


Attached File  Venus_overlay_UMSf.kmz ( 29.74K ) Number of downloads: 1620


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:04 PM
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Venus image tour (Geolocated NASA photojournal images of Venus, many of which are added into the basic overlay as areas of higher resolution)


Attached File  Venus_Image_Tour_UMSF.kmz ( 60.41K ) Number of downloads: 588


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:06 PM
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Venus Lander Models, download the Venus overlay set from the post above or else they will be on Earth. They are sized to scale as if the Earth sphere was a slightly smaller Venus sphere.

Attached File  Venus_Lander_UMSF.kmz ( 1.33MB ) Number of downloads: 591


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:07 PM
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Venus IAU approved nomenclature

Attached File  Venus_Nomenclature_UMSF.kmz ( 183.24K ) Number of downloads: 584


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:10 PM
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Additional Lunar Overlays, mainly science based (including vastly improved resolution topography on left of this image compared to default provided by Google which isn't even aligned correctly)

Attached File  Moon_overlays_UMSF.kmz ( 83.07K ) Number of downloads: 3477


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:14 PM
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A few dozen updated lander models for the moon (corrected locations as well as more recent probes Google has not added as well as higher resolution imagery for them)

Attached File  Moon_lander_update_UMSF.kmz ( 2.27MB ) Number of downloads: 1802


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:16 PM
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Updated lunar nomenclature (it's huge, it includes the lettered craters not shown in default Moon layer which is outdated by over a decade)

Attached File  Moon_nomenclature_UMSF.kmz ( 1.15MB ) Number of downloads: 585


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:18 PM
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Extra Mars Overlays (Mainly science based like gravity and mineral abundance)

Attached File  Mars_Overlays_UMSF.kmz ( 47.06K ) Number of downloads: 863


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:20 PM
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Some models for updated Mars landers like InSight and the located Mars 3

Attached File  Mars_Lander_UMSF.kmz ( 918.63K ) Number of downloads: 634


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:21 PM
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Updated IAU approved Mars nomenclature (The default on Mars is outdated by a few years)
Attached File  Mars_Nomenclature_UMSF.kmz ( 252.77K ) Number of downloads: 585


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:23 PM
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Martian Moons (they looks like potatoes but I can't make them potatoes in GE)
Attached File  Martian_Moons.kmz ( 12.68K ) Number of downloads: 611


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post Sep 21 2020, 02:25 PM
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Jupiter and moons, several layers of the gas giant show it's changing clouds overtime


Attached File  Jupiter_Megaoverlay.kmz ( 304.54K ) Number of downloads: 1462



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post Sep 21 2020, 02:27 PM
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Saturn and Moons, includes Huygens model and landing collage. Huygens is to scale of Earth, as in it's like there's a Titan-size globe. Titan also has realistic atmospheric effects visible by turning on sun and Earth atmosphere.


Attached File  Saturn_Megaoverlay.kmz ( 559.93K ) Number of downloads: 704


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