Planetary atlas · Research build

DuneExplore other worlds, down to the surface.

An offline planetary atlas for traversing the Moon and Mars. Explore global imagery and elevation, then move into regional detail from the same map.

Dune displaying the Mars global mosaic with coordinate grid, landmark navigation, and terrain controls — Mars · Global mapApplication capture

Dune displaying a shaded 3D globe of the Moon — Moon · 3D globeApplication capture

macOS 14+2D map + 3D globeOffline map packs

What it does

Dune renders local map packs as an interactive equirectangular map or a 3D globe. Switch between imagery and colorized terrain, inspect elevation, use landmarks, and measure distance across a body.

Built from open planetary data

A companion ingest pipeline turns NASA, USGS, and ESA imagery and elevation products into portable MBTiles and JSON map packs. Current packs cover the Moon and Mars, including a high-resolution Apollo 17 inset at Taurus–Littrow.

Research status

The current project includes a SwiftUI macOS application and a Python map-pack pipeline. Global relief, local terrain colorization, and the Apollo 17 inset are implemented. Additional landing-site insets and a smaller streaming installer remain planned work.

Project boundary

Dune is a research application for planetary data exploration. The website describes the project; it does not offer a public installer or claim that every planned mapping feature is complete.