Virtual Reality Moon Phases were created by R. Schmidt from ray-traced images of the Moon. A Clementine spacecraft mosaic of the lunar surface was mapped onto a sphere, and scenes were rendered as a virtual Sun 'orbited' the Moon. The depiction of lunar surface features suffers geometric distortion but the terminator is correct with respect to the spherical Moon. Site referenced is http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html

Current Moon Phase
(Courtesy US Naval Observatory)

Daily Sunspot Image from http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

Daily Sunspot Image
(Courtesy NASA SOHO)

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