Atmosphere
About 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases.
Acquiring mission data
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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 745–768
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A batch of satellites for the Starlink constellation
View in 3D map — Starlink-233 (12-8)Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-232 (12-18) mission on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-232 (12-18)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Debut launch of the Long March 8A. Compared to the standard Long March 8, the Long March 8A has a larger second stage and payload fairing, allowing for a higher payload capacity. This launch carried an unspecified number of satellites for the Guowang (SatNet) broadband constellation.
View in 3D map — SatNet LEO Group 02 (Demo Flight)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-231 (11-10) mission on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-231 (11-10)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Fourth batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.
View in 3D map — Kinéis 16-20Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-230 (12-9) mission on Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-230 (12-9)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Russian Military Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Kosmos 2581, 2582 & 2583 (Classified) mission on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Kosmos 2581, 2582 & 2583 (Classified)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the WorldView Legion 5 & 6 mission on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — WorldView Legion 5 & 6Suborbital · Suborbital mission
NS-29 will simulate the Moon’s gravity and fly 30 payloads, all but one of which is focused on testing lunar-related technologies.
View in 3D map — NS-29 (Lunar-G)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-229 (12-3) mission on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-229 (12-3)
Blue Originarchive
Suborbital flight · Human-spaceflight support
New Shepard NS-29 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the New Shepard program.
View in 3D map — New Shepard NS-29Earth orbit · Launch payload
Japanese navigation satellite for the Quasi Zenith Satellite System
View in 3D map — Michibiki No. 6 (QZS-6)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-228 (11-4) mission on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-228 (11-4)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the SpainSat NG I mission on Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SpainSat NG IEarth orbit · Launch payload
An ISRO GSLV-II rocket launched the NVS-02 (IRNSS-1K) mission on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — NVS-02 (IRNSS-1K)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-227 (12-7) mission on Monday, January 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-227 (12-7)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-226 (11-6) mission on Friday, January 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-226 (11-6)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 3B rocket launched the TJSW-14 mission on Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TJSW-14Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 6A rocket launched the Qianfan-04 (Polar 06) mission on Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Qianfan-04 (Polar 06)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-225 (11-8) mission on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-225 (11-8)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-224 (13-1) mission on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-224 (13-1)Earth orbit · Launch payload
5 payloads delivered to sun-synchronous orbit.
View in 3D map — "On Your Shoulders" (Yunyao-1 37-40, Jitianxing A-05)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Secondary payloads for Galaxy-Space and GeeSpace, respectively.
View in 3D map — DAO-1, Blue Carbon 1Associations 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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