Image attributions

Sorsa builds its own interactive models and visuals. Where we use third-party imagery, it is public domain wherever possible. The images below are used under Creative Commons attribution licences and are credited here in line with their terms.

Attribution-licensed images

• Limestone specimen (Year 8 geology)

  © James St. John — CC BY 2.0 · source

• Quartz specimen (Year 8 geology)

  © Derek Ramsey — CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

• Calcite specimen (Year 8 geology)

  © Robert M. Lavinsky (iRocks.com) — CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

• Hematite specimen (Year 8 geology)

  © Robert M. Lavinsky (iRocks.com) — CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

• Total solar eclipse corona (Year 7 eclipses)

  © Bernd Thaller — CC BY 2.0 · source

• San Andreas Fault aerial, Carrizo Plain (Year 8 transform boundaries)

  © Nelson Saarni — CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

• Age of the ocean floor map (Year 8 divergent boundaries)

  © R.D. Müller, M. Sdrolias, C. Gaina & W.R. Roest / NOAA NGDC — CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

• Comet Hale-Bopp (Year 7 astronomy)

  © E. Kolmhofer & H. Raab, Johannes-Kepler-Observatory — CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

• The Southern Cross / Crux (Year 7 astronomy)

  © Björn Söderlund (Sw3dPix) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

• Wave Rock, Western Australia (Year 8 igneous rocks)

  © Jonathan LaRocca — CC BY 2.0 · source

Public-domain sources

• Planet & deep-space imagery: NASA / JPL (public domain)
• Earth surface, night-lights & cloud layers: NASA Visible Earth — Blue Marble & Black Marble (public domain)
• Lava flow imagery: U.S. Geological Survey (public domain)
• Rock & mineral specimens (granite, basalt, sandstone, marble, slate, pyrite, talc, galena): CC0 / public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
• World tectonic-plate map (Year 8 geology): U.S. Geological Survey (public domain)
• Pacific Ring of Fire map (Year 8 geology): public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
• Continental-fit fossil-evidence map / Gondwana (Year 8 geology): U.S. Geological Survey (public domain)
• Far side of the Moon (Year 7 astronomy): NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (public domain)
• Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 (Year 7 astronomy): NASA, ESA & The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) (public domain)
• The Sun (Year 7 astronomy): NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory, AIA 304 Å (public domain)
• Super Pit gold mine, Kalgoorlie, from space (Year 8 geology): NASA Earth Observatory / EO-1 ALI (public domain)
• Pluto (Year 7 astronomy): NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / SwRI, New Horizons (public domain)
• Solar system montage (Year 7 astronomy): NASA / JPL (public domain)
• Saturn and its rings (Year 7 astronomy): NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute, Cassini (public domain)