Um... I've got bigger problems than that.

I've had a little play with your planet mat - and this is creating animation problems.  I turned it into a more desert like planet - not completely just more desert than it had - however, during the animation it keeps trying to revert to the original mat.  Even though I've gone through the mat lab and set the start and end keyframes to the new mat - it's still not right.

Also, I set the ship not to cast shadows (rather than the planet) and the ship's textures vanished. Weeeheee! Ain't I got fun!

I'll try it your way, see if that helps.

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