Natural Bridge on the Moon

[blackcat]

A NASA lunar orbiter recently discovered a natural bridge on the Moon as wide as a two-lane highway. This is my TG2 depiction of what I think it might look like seen from the surface.

[inkydigit]

great idea and cool surfaces!

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i agree with inky, it looks really good. 

[Kadri]

Looks good , Blackcat 
How does the color version look?

[Seth]

a bit rocky for the moon ^^

[Naoo]

but cool

[Volker Harun]

a bit rocky for the moon ^^

If it were not the moon, I would say, stunning rocks ,-)

[blackcat]

Thanks for all the nice compliments...they are much appreciated.

The bridge was created by the collapse of a lava tube, which is the reason for all the rubble at the bottom. You can just barely make out this debris in the orbital photo of the feature. There are a number of collapsed lava tubes on earth (notably in Hawaii) which provided visual models for this depiction. It's also similar to the enormous piles of rock one finds under large domes in caverns.

[blackcat]

This one depicts one of the long, linear ice cliffs recently discovered on Saturn's moon, Dione.

[blackcat]

Exploring Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon.

[blackcat]

A scene on Titan, just after a methane rain has soaked the shores of a methane lake. This was done for Scientific American earlier this year.

[jbest]

Io's volcano there is an image map shader?

[blackcat]

Gliese 581 d, the recently discovered "Goldilocks planet" that may be very earth-like. It orbits very near a red dwarf star.

[blackcat]

Io's volcano there is an image map shader?

You mean for the colors? There is one for the entire moon, but I didn't use that here. We are much too close to the surface for it to work. The landscape itself was generated from a heightfield map that I created from scratch in Photoshop (something I do for all my TG renderings).

[jbest]

I meant the "firework"-looking volcano.