Rotating planets with CSS

Question

I have a project where I am creating some planets and they need to rotate. I am a beginner currently in school. I found some code that rotates but It starts to skip. The alternative is to have it alternate in rotating but then that doesn't look right.

How can I fix this with CSS?

.earth {
    width: 300px;
    height: 300px;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    margin: auto;
    overflow: hidden;
    border-radius: 50%;
    box-shadow: 0 0 20px 20px #000 inset, 0 0 20px 2px #000;
}

.earth:after {
    position: absolute;
    content: "";
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    box-shadow: -20px -20px 50px 2px #000 inset;
    border-radius: 50%;
}

.earth > div {
    width: 200%;
    height: 100%;
    animation: spin 30s linear infinite;
    background: url(https://i.sstatic.net/3SLqF.jpg);
    /*orginal image at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Earthmap1000x500compac.jpg/640px-Earthmap1000x500compac.jpg */
    background-size: cover;
}

@keyframes spin {
    to {
        transform: translateX(-50%);
    }
}

<div class="earth">
  <div></div>
</div>

Here is the GIF image of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/f7nUtrW//

Answer 1

You can see my attempt here, and the accompanying article! Here is the pug (sass is hundreds of lines)

- const randomNumber = ({ min, max }) => Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min;
- const planetDiameter = 50;
- const cloudLayers = 3;
- const earth = [{"label": "Africa", "layers": 20, "diameter": 26 * (50 / 42), "rotation": -8, "z-rotation": 14, "position": 10, "components": 1},{"label": "Asia", "layers": 20, "diameter": 38 * (50 / 42), "rotation": -4, "z-rotation": -45, "position": 1919, "components": 7},{"label": "Europe", "layers": 20, "diameter": 21 * (50/42), "rotation": 0, "z-rotation": 10, "position": 520, "components": 8},{"label": "America", "layers": 20, "diameter": 41 * (50/42), "rotation": 20, "z-rotation": 140, "position": 560, "components": 4},{"label": "Australasia", "layers": 20, "diameter": 24 * (50 / 42), "rotation": -10, "z-rotation": -89, "position": 1, "components": 24}];
- const clouds = [{"label": "A", "randomY": randomNumber({min: 0, max: 36}) * 10, "randomZ": randomNumber({min: -50, max: 50}), "center-to-apex": -95, "width": "632.15px", "height": "271.38px"}, {"label": "B", "randomY": randomNumber({min: 0, max: 36}) * 10, "randomZ": randomNumber({min: -50, max: 50}), "center-to-apex": 0, "width": "762.01px", "height": "301.12px"}, { "label": "C","randomY": randomNumber({min: 0, max: 36}) * 10, "randomZ": randomNumber({min: -50, max: 50}), "center-to-apex": 0, "width": "737.64px", "height": "409.58px"}, {"label": "D", "randomY": randomNumber({min: 0, max: 36}) * 10, "randomZ": randomNumber({min: -50, max: 50}), "center-to-apex": 0, "width": "778.11px", "height": "406.46px"}, {"label": "E", "randomY": randomNumber({min: 0, max: 36}) * 10, "randomZ": randomNumber({min: -50, max: 50}), "center-to-apex": 130, "width": "750.41px", "height": "391.78px"}];
- const cloudsComputed = Array(randomNumber({ min: 10, max: 20 })).fill("").map(() => { const randomZ = randomNumber({ min: -50, max: 50 }); const randomY = randomNumber({ min: 0, max: 36 }) * 10; const randomCloud = clouds[randomNumber({ min: 0, max: clouds.length - 1 })].label; const randomScale = randomNumber({ min: 21, max: 30 }); return { randomZ, randomY, randomCloud, randomScale };});

.Earth
.Earth__Earth-Container
 .Planet.Planet--Earth
   .Sphere
     .Hemisphere
       each continent in earth
         div(class=`Island Island--${continent.label}`)
           - var layers = continent.layers - 1;
           while layers > 0
             - layers--
             .Plate
               div
                 - var components = continent.components;
                 while components > 0
                   - components--
                     .Land

.Earth__Clouds
 each cloud in cloudsComputed
   div(class=`Planet Planet--Clouds Planet--Clouds--y-rotation--${cloud.randomY}`)
     .Sphere
       div(class="Hemisphere" style={"transform": `rotateY(${cloud.randomY}deg) rotateZ(${cloud.randomZ}deg)`})
         div(class=`Island Cloud Cloud--${cloud.randomCloud} Cloud--scale-${cloud.randomScale}`)
           - var layers = cloudLayers;
           while layers > 0
             - layers--
               div

Answer 2

You need to make the width 400% and not 200% and instead of cover use auto 100%.

I have optimized the code a little so you can easily adjust the dimension and keep the circular shape:

.earth {
  width: 300px;
  display:inline-block;
  margin: 5px;
  overflow: hidden;
  border-radius: 50%;
  box-shadow: 0 0 20px 20px #000 inset, 0 0 20px 2px #000;
  position:relative;
}
.earth:after {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  box-shadow: -20px -20px 50px 2px #000 inset;
  border-radius: 50%;
}
.earth::before {
  content: "";
  display: block;
  width: 400%;
  padding-top:100%;
  animation: spin 3s linear infinite;
  background: url(https://github.com/BHouwens/SolarSim/blob/master/images/earthmap1k.jpg?raw=true);
  background-size: auto 100%;
}

@keyframes spin {
  to {
    transform: translateX(-50%);
  }
}

<div class="earth">
</div>

<div class="earth" style="width:200px">
</div>

<div class="earth" style="width:100px">
</div>

Also like below with less of code and no pseudo element:

.earth {
  --d:300px;
  width: var(--d);
  height:var(--d);
  display:inline-block;
  margin: 5px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  box-shadow: -20px -20px 50px 2px #000 inset, 0 0 20px 2px #000;
  background: 
    url(https://i.sstatic.net/3SLqF.jpg)
    0/auto 100%;
  animation: spin 3s linear infinite;
}

@keyframes spin {
  to {
    background-position:200% 0;
  }
}

<div class="earth">
</div>

<div class="earth" style="--d:200px">
</div>

<div class="earth" style="--d:100px">
</div>

Answer 3

You can add two stages to the keyframe specifying the x-position, as such:

@keyframes spin{
  0% { background-position-x: 0; } 
  100% { background-position-x: -600px; }
}

I've added an snippet with the result:

.earth {
    width: 300px;
    height: 300px;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    margin: auto;
    overflow: hidden;
    border-radius: 50%;
    box-shadow: 0 0 20px 20px #000 inset, 0 0 20px 2px #000;
}

.earth:after {
    position: absolute;
    content: "";
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    box-shadow: -20px -20px 50px 2px #000 inset;
    border-radius: 50%;
}

.earth > div {
    width: 200%;
    height: 100%;
    animation: spin 5s linear infinite;
    background: url(https://github.com/BHouwens/SolarSim/blob/master/images/earthmap1k.jpg?raw=true);
    /*orginal image at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Earthmap1000x500compac.jpg/640px-Earthmap1000x500compac.jpg */
    background-size: cover;
}
@keyframes spin{
  0% { background-position-x: 0; } 
  100% { background-position-x: -600px; }
}

<div class="earth">
  <div></div>
</div>