This project consists of several 3D objects inside a large sphere that is physically over 32″. Each moon has detailed texture maps including cloud layers and atmosphere.
The translucent pyramid opens like a flower and the sphere ‘craft’ inside rotates slowly and pulses with light.
When this project was first done in TrueSpace in 1997 it was to be a 107 second video of the sphere flying to both moons complete with a musical score. However the rendering then would have taken about 11 months of 100% compute time. So the complete render was not created.
Unfortunately TrueSpace died when Microsoft bought the company. This project may get recreated some day using new tech, maybe Blender.