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 697–720
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-246 (11-11) mission on Monday, April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-246 (11-11)Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-245 (6-72) mission on Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-245 (6-72)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-244 (11-13) mission on Friday, April 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-244 (11-13)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 6 rocket launched the Tianping-3A-02 mission on Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianping-3A-02Earth orbit · Launch payload
4 satellites designated "wexing hulianwang jishu shiyan weixing", or Satellite Internet Technology test satellite. Possibly related to the SatNet constellation.
View in 3D map — WHJSW-6 (01-04)
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Earth orbit · Crewed mission
FRAM-2 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 program.
View in 3D map — FRAM-2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-243 (6-80) mission on Monday, March 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-243 (6-80)Earth orbit · Launch payload
First flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket, also the first orbital launch attempt from Andøya. Officially opened by the end of 2023, Andøya Spaceport is the first operational spaceport in continental Europe.
View in 3D map — "Going Full Spectrum" (Demo Flight)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 7A rocket launched the TJSW-16 mission on Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TJSW-16Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-242 (11-7) mission on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-242 (11-7)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 3B rocket launched the Tianlian-2 04 mission on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianlian-2 04Earth orbit · Launch payload
Mission for Germany-based company OroraTech. The mission will deliver eight OroraTech satellites to a 550km orbit.
View in 3D map — "Finding Hot Wildfires Near You"Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the NROL-69 mission on Monday, March 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — NROL-69Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket launched the "Vernal Ascent" mission on Friday, March 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — "Vernal Ascent"Earth orbit · Launch payload
6 weather satellites for a planned 90-satellite constellation.
View in 3D map — Yunyao-1 43-48Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the NROL-57 mission on Friday, March 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — NROL-57Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-241 (12-25) mission on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-241 (12-25)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Last of five batches of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.
View in 3D map — Kinéis 21-25 MissionEarth orbit · Launch payload
8 satellites deployed to Sun-Synchronous Orbit.
View in 3D map — Yunyao-1 55-60, AIRSAT-06 & 07Earth orbit · Launch payload
Believed to be three classified payloads; exact Kosmos numbers uncertain.
View in 3D map — Kosmos 2585-2587Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-240 (12-16) mission on Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-240 (12-16)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites
View in 3D map — Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 2D rocket launched the SuperView Neo 3-02 mission on Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SuperView Neo 3-02Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 2D rocket launched the SuperView Neo 3-02 mission on Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianyan-23Associations 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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