Paper planets and models to print

How to print

• Print at actual size (100 %, not "fit to page"): each sheet fits A4 and US Letter, landscape, with 10 mm to spare.
• Thick paper (160 to 200 g/m²) folds and holds best; thin card works for the Moon wheel.
• Each globe is 82 mm across: twelve gores joined at the equator, a glue tab on each, and the steps on the sheet.

Paper globes: 31 worlds

Every map is a measured one, from spacecraft and telescopes, and each sheet prints its credit word for word with its licence: public domain, or CC BY 4.0 with the credit shown. Where a spacecraft saw only part of a world, the sheet says how much, and the rest is one plain colour with nothing invented.

• Ariel

  82 mm across, 1 : 14.1 million; the Earth at that scale: 90 cm. 34 % mapped; the rest plain.

  Ariel map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS (Voyager 2), public domain

• Callisto

  82 mm across, 1 : 58.8 million; the Earth at that scale: 22 cm.

  Callisto map: USGS Astrogeology Science Center (Voyager and Galileo SSI), public domain

• Ceres

  82 mm across, 1 : 11.5 million; the Earth at that scale: 1.11 m.

  Ceres map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA (Dawn Framing Camera, global mosaic by DLR), hosted by USGS Astrogeology Science Center (NASA media: not subject to copyright in the United States)

• Charon

  82 mm across, 1 : 14.8 million; the Earth at that scale: 86 cm. 73 % mapped; the rest plain.

  Charon map: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI (New Horizons MVIC colour mosaic, NASA Planetary Data System) and USGS Astrogeology Science Center (LORRI mosaic), public domain

• Dione

  82 mm across, 1 : 13.7 million; the Earth at that scale: 93 cm.

  Dione map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Lunar and Planetary Institute (Cassini, PIA18434), public domain

• Earth

  82 mm across, 1 : 155 million; the Moon at that scale: 22 mm.

  Planet textures: Solar System Scope (solarsystemscope.com), CC BY 4.0

• Enceladus

  82 mm across, 1 : 6.15 million; the Earth at that scale: 2.07 m.

  Enceladus map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Lunar and Planetary Institute, public domain

• Europa

  82 mm across, 1 : 38.1 million; the Earth at that scale: 33 cm.

  Europa map: USGS Astrogeology Science Center (Voyager and Galileo SSI), public domain

• Ganymede

  82 mm across, 1 : 64.2 million; the Earth at that scale: 20 cm.

  Ganymede map: USGS Astrogeology Science Center (Voyager and Galileo SSI), public domain

• Iapetus

  82 mm across, 1 : 17.9 million; the Earth at that scale: 71 cm.

  Iapetus map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Lunar and Planetary Institute (Cassini, PIA18436), public domain

• Io

  82 mm across, 1 : 44.4 million; the Earth at that scale: 29 cm.

  Io map: USGS Astrogeology Science Center (Galileo SSI and Voyager), public domain

• Jupiter

  82 mm across, 1 : 1.71 billion; the Earth at that scale: 7.5 mm.

  Planet textures: Solar System Scope (solarsystemscope.com), CC BY 4.0

• Mars

  82 mm across, 1 : 82.7 million; the Earth at that scale: 15 cm.

  Planet textures: Solar System Scope (solarsystemscope.com), CC BY 4.0

• Mercury

  82 mm across, 1 : 59.5 million; the Earth at that scale: 21 cm.

  Mercury map: USGS Astrogeology Science Center and NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington (MESSENGER MDIS), public domain

• Mimas

  82 mm across, 1 : 4.83 million; the Earth at that scale: 2.64 m.

  Mimas map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Lunar and Planetary Institute (Cassini, PIA18437), public domain

• Miranda

  82 mm across, 1 : 5.75 million; the Earth at that scale: 2.22 m. 39 % mapped; the rest plain.

  Miranda map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS (Voyager 2), public domain

• Moon

  82 mm across, 1 : 42.4 million; the Earth at that scale: 30 cm.

  Planet textures: Solar System Scope (solarsystemscope.com), CC BY 4.0

• Neptune

  82 mm across, 1 : 601 million; the Earth at that scale: 21 mm.

  Planet textures: Solar System Scope (solarsystemscope.com), CC BY 4.0

• Oberon

  82 mm across, 1 : 18.6 million; the Earth at that scale: 69 cm. 34 % mapped; the rest plain.

  Oberon map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS (Voyager 2), public domain

• Phobos

  82 mm across, 1 : 270 000; the Earth at that scale: 47.1 m.

  Phobos map: USGS Astrogeology Science Center (Viking Orbiter mosaic, control by P. Stooke), public domain

• Pluto

  82 mm across, 1 : 29 million; the Earth at that scale: 44 cm. 78 % mapped; the rest plain.

  Pluto map: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (New Horizons global colour map, Photojournal PIA11707, in natural colour from the New Horizons MVIC colour mosaic, NASA Planetary Data System), public domain

• Rhea

  82 mm across, 1 : 18.6 million; the Earth at that scale: 68 cm.

  Rhea map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Lunar and Planetary Institute (Cassini, PIA18438), public domain

• Saturn

  82 mm across, 1 : 1.42 billion; the Earth at that scale: 9 mm.

  Planet textures: Solar System Scope (solarsystemscope.com), CC BY 4.0

• Tethys

  82 mm across, 1 : 13 million; the Earth at that scale: 98 cm.

  Tethys map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Lunar and Planetary Institute (Cassini, PIA18439), public domain

• Titan

  82 mm across, 1 : 62.8 million; the Earth at that scale: 20 cm.

  Titan map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Arizona (Cassini ISS, 938 nm, PIA22770), public domain (NASA media: not subject to copyright in the United States)

• Titania

  82 mm across, 1 : 19.2 million; the Earth at that scale: 66 cm. 32 % mapped; the rest plain.

  Titania map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS (Voyager 2), public domain

• Triton

  82 mm across, 1 : 33 million; the Earth at that scale: 39 cm. 67 % mapped; the rest plain.

  Triton map: USGS Astrogeology Science Center and NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lunar and Planetary Institute (Voyager 2, P. Schenk, PIA18668), public domain

• Umbriel

  82 mm across, 1 : 14.3 million; the Earth at that scale: 89 cm. 37 % mapped; the rest plain.

  Umbriel map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS (Voyager 2), public domain

• Uranus

  82 mm across, 1 : 619 million; the Earth at that scale: 21 mm.

  Planet textures: Solar System Scope (solarsystemscope.com), CC BY 4.0

• Venus

  82 mm across, 1 : 148 million; the Earth at that scale: 86 mm.

  Planet textures: Solar System Scope (solarsystemscope.com), CC BY 4.0

• Venus under its clouds

  82 mm across, 1 : 148 million; the Earth at that scale: 86 mm.

  Venus surface map: USGS Astrogeology Science Center and NASA/JPL-Caltech (Magellan radar, C3-MIDR mosaic), public domain

• Vesta

  82 mm across, 1 : 6.41 million; the Earth at that scale: 1.99 m.

  Vesta map and shape: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA (Dawn Framing Camera, HAMO mosaic and stereo height model by DLR), hosted by USGS Astrogeology Science Center (NASA media: not subject to copyright in the United States)

Models

• The Moon-phase wheel

• The distance-ladder strip

• The fold-up James Webb Space Telescope

The Moon wheel's phases are computed (the lit share of the disc for each angle from the Sun) and the strip's distances are the ones the map's scale ladder shows, each with its source printed on the sheet. Webb is at 1 : 250 from NASA's published sizes (the 18 mirror segments, the secondary, the sunshield); the parts NASA gives no size for are estimated from NASA's own 3D model, and the sheet says which.

Not here, and why

• Sun: the Sun has no surface to map: its texture pictures one moment of granulation, not places.

Space Radar in the classroom · The script that makes the sheets