Atmosphere
About 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases.
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Planet 03 · Terrestrial ocean world
The only known world with a living ocean.
Earth is the largest rocky planet and the only place known to host life. Liquid surface water, plate tectonics, a protective magnetic field, and a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere make it unlike every other world we have examined.
World profile
About 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases.
A moving rocky crust with continents, ocean basins, ice, and active plate tectonics.
Global average about 59 °F (15 °C)
One — the Moon
Composition
Field notes
Earth is the only planet known to keep stable liquid water on its surface.
The moving liquid-metal outer core generates the magnetic field that helps shield the atmosphere.
The leading model for the Moon's origin starts with a giant impact into the young Earth.
Sourced image archive
Every image keeps its credit, capture date, description, and original source. Mission imagery links back into the same Andromeda mission catalog.
Earth portrait
A seamless true-color Western Hemisphere globe assembled from Terra MODIS observations of land, ocean, sea ice, and clouds.
Connected mission archive
Flybys, orbiters, landers, atmospheric probes, rovers, launch missions, gravity assists, and system satellites are linked here when they exist in the Andromeda catalog.
Open mission browser →8816 linked missions · showing 505–528
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 6A rocket launched the Qianfan-06 (Polar 18) mission on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Qianfan-06 (Polar 18)Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-311 (10-52) mission on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-311 (10-52)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 8A rocket launched the SatNet LEO Group 12 mission on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SatNet LEO Group 12Earth orbit · Launch payload
This is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). On this launch, 21 satellites manufactured by Lockheed Martin will be deployed.
View in 3D map — SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer CEarth orbit · Launch payload
Launching radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective. Seventh Launch for Synspective on Rocket Lab's Electron.
View in 3D map — StriX Launch 7Low Earth orbit · Launch payload
This is the third launch of communication satellites for the Amazon Kuiper constellation on a Falcon 9 rocket.
View in 3D map — Leo-6 (KF-03)Suborbital · Launch payload
Ship 38 is expected to fly together with Booster 15 (caught by the launch tower after successfully performing on Flight 8). The test campaign has started on September 7, 2025, with a successful static fire of the booster, now called B15-2. It went on with a successful static fire of Ship 38 on September 22, 2025. This mission is the final launch of a version 2 Starship.
View in 3D map — Starship Flight 11Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 2D rocket was set to launch the Shiyan-31 mission on Monday, October 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan-31Earth orbit · Launch payload
3 satellites carried to sun-synchronous orbit.
View in 3D map — Jilin-1 Wideband 02B-07 & OthersSuborbital · Suborbital mission
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket was set to launch the NS-36 mission on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — NS-36Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-310 (11-17) mission on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-310 (11-17)
Blue Originarchive
Suborbital flight · Crewed mission
New Shepard NS-36 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the New Shepard program.
View in 3D map — New Shepard NS-36Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-309 (10-59) mission on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-309 (10-59)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-308 (11-39) mission on Friday, October 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-308 (11-39)Suborbital · Suborbital mission
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the JUSTIN (HASTE) mission on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — JUSTIN (HASTE)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 2D rocket was set to launch the Shiyan 30 01-02 mission on Monday, September 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan 30 01-02Earth orbit · Launch payload
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 28 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A live webcast of this mission will begin about five minutes prior to liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the new X TV app. This will be the 28th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, NROL-113, NROL-167, NROL-149, NAOS, and 18 Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean.
View in 3D map — Starlink-307 (11-20)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 6A rocket launched the SatNet LEO Group 11 mission on Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SatNet LEO Group 11Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 4C rocket launched the Fengyun-3H mission on Friday, September 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Fengyun-3HEarth orbit · Launch payload
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A live webcast of this mission will begin about five minutes prior to liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the new X TV app. This is the 16th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, NROL-145, and 12 Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean.
View in 3D map — Starlink-306 (17-11)Low Earth orbit · Launch payload
The third launch of Amazon's Kuiper communication satellites on an Atlas rocket, carrying another 27 satellites to the same LEO (630km).
View in 3D map — Leo-5 (KA-03)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-305 (10-15) mission on Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-305 (10-15)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Three new instruments to study our Sun will launch on one Falcon rocket: NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1).
View in 3D map — CarruthersEarth orbit · Launch payload
Three new instruments to study our Sun will launch on one Falcon rocket: NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1).
View in 3D map — IMAPAssociations use destination records plus a curated cross-world manifest for flybys and gravity assists. Mission-name collisions such as Project Mercury and Saturn launch vehicles are deliberately kept with Earth unless they actually visited the planet. Technically obvious; historically necessary.
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