The Many Moons of Google Earth
A Google Earth add-on containing 34 real scale 3D models of the largest natural satellites in the Solar System crammed around Google Earth. 
34 Moons in Google Earth (4.5MB)
Why have I done this? Well, think of it as an interactive 3D size comparison chart, contrasting the size of the Earth with every moon greater than 100km diameter.
The video gives a quick fly through:
Clicking on the icons (not shown in the video) displays basic information for each moon, plus links to images in the Nasa/JPL image library and Wikipedia articles.
Wherever possible the models use real photo maps for textures, and for the non-spherical bodies, accurate shape files - details of where these come from are listed below. To put the models together I used the techniques outlined in these two earlier posts.
Textured globe models
Martian system in Google Earth
Acknowledgements
Texture Maps
- Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto - created by Björn Jónsson
- Epimetheus, Amalthea, Janus, Hyperion, Proteus - Phil Stooke
- Triton - distributed under a GNU General Public License (GPL) as part of the Celestia source code.
- Mimas*, Miranda*, Tethys*, Dione*, Ariel*, Umbriel*, Oberon*, Titania*, Rhea* - USGS
- Charon, Titan - NASA/JPL/Seal
- The Moon - Naval Research Laboratory
- Enceladus*, Iapetus* - Courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Shape files
- Epimetheus, Amalthea, Janus, Hyperion, Proteus - Phil Stooke
- Portia, Despina, Puck, Himalia, Galatea, Sycora, Larissa, Nereid and Dysnomia use various scaled and stretched versions of a generic model I created based on Phil Stooke’s Proteus.
* These images have had some additional tweaking and colourization in PSPro.
Posted By James On July 15th, 2007.
Comments: 13
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Comment from María
Time: July 15, 2007, 8:42 pm
James, again, wow 
http://google-earth-es.blogspot.com/2007/07/34-lunas-del-sistema-solar.html
Comment from db
Time: July 16, 2007, 7:53 am
Great stuff. But what’s with the detailed surface imagery of Charon? I’m pretty sure there isn’t any!
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Time: July 16, 2007, 9:43 am
[...] Earth es una herramienta muy interesante y con posibilidades infinitas, como lo que nos ofrece James Stafford de barnabu.co.uk, que es una comparación de cada Luna del sistema solar (modelos 3D) que pueden ser vistos desde [...]
Comment from James
Time: July 16, 2007, 11:43 am
db - yes, the Charon map is largely fictional… but comes with the NASA stamp of approval
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Time: July 16, 2007, 12:12 pm
[...] James Stafford, ha rilasciato questo file sul suo blog spiegando alcuni dettagli del suo lavoro. Le lune sono modellate in 3D e hanno una propria texture. [...]
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Time: July 17, 2007, 1:58 pm
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Time: July 18, 2007, 12:29 pm
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Time: July 21, 2007, 2:06 am
[...] para ver en Google Earth. Descarga las 34 lunas en KML aquí (4.5 Mbytes). James Stafford lanzó esta colección en su Blog de Barnabu hoy. Las Lunas son en realidad un modelo 3D con texturas, [...]
Comment from hhimakki
Time: August 2, 2007, 8:36 am
thankyou
Comment from brianna
Time: January 8, 2008, 12:22 am
you need to just show how many moons there are and not confuse us with that show(or what ever you call it).
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Time: January 9, 2008, 3:04 am
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Time: January 9, 2008, 10:26 pm
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Comment from Vishal Mhatre
Time: March 15, 2008, 12:27 pm
i am so crazy about space .i travel all world by google earth .com. i want any more web site like google earth .i would like to see more sitelight images in free cost .please help me .
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