Make: Volume 74

For two years I’ve been working on a collection

of ten maps of planets, moons, and outer space.

To name a few, I’ve made an animated map of the

seasons on Earth, a map of Mars geology, and a

map of everything in the solar system bigger than

10km. I call it my Atlas of Space.

Last summer I began sharing each map, along

with the open-source Python code and detailed

tutorials for re-creating the design. All of the

astronomy data comes from publicly available

sources like NASA, USGS, and the International

Astronomical Union (IAU), so I thought this would

be the perfect project for writing design tutorials

(which I’ve been meaning to do for a while). ...