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 985–1008
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Roscosmos Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Cosmos-2576 mission on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 9:21 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Cosmos-2576Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-165 (8-7) mission on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 6:39 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-165 (8-7)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-164 (6-58) mission on Monday, May 13, 2024 at 12:53 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-164 (6-58)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 4C rocket launched the Shiyan 23 mission on Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 11:43 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan 23Earth orbit · Launch payload
Payload included 13 direct-to-device service satellites.
View in 3D map — Starlink-163 (8-2)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 3B rocket launched the ZHTW 1-1 mission on Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 1:43 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — ZHTW 1-1Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-162 (6-56) mission on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 6:42 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-162 (6-56)Earth orbit · Launch payload
First flight of the new Long March 6C variant, 4 unconfirmed payloads were on board.
View in 3D map — Debut FlightEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-161 (6-57) mission on Monday, May 6, 2024 at 6:14 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-161 (6-57)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-160 (6-55) mission on Friday, May 3, 2024 at 1:49 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-160 (6-55)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Maxar-1 mission on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 6:36 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — WorldView Legion 1 & 2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-159 (6-54) mission on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 9:50 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-159 (6-54)Earth orbit · Launch payload
The first of 2 launches for the European Commission for the Galileo satellite constellation.
View in 3D map — Galileo FM25 & FM27Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Shenzhou 18 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Shenzhou program.
View in 3D map — Shenzhou 18Earth orbit · Launch payload
Technology demonstration satellites; S.Korea's NeonSat-1 is a high-resolution optical satellite, NASA's ACS3 will help design future composite solar sail systems.
View in 3D map — "Beginning Of The Swarm"Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-158 (6-53) mission on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 10:17 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-158 (6-53)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Chinese military remote sensing satellite.
View in 3D map — Yaogan 42-02Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-157 (6-52) mission on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 10:40 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-157 (6-52)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-156 (6-51) mission on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 9:26 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-156 (6-51)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the SuperView Neo 3-01 mission on Monday, April 15, 2024 at 4:12 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SuperView Neo 3-01Earth orbit · Launch payload
Booster B1062 will be setting a new booster reuse record, 20th flight.
View in 3D map — Starlink-155 (6-49)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the USSF-62 mission on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 2:25 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — USSF-62Earth orbit · Launch payload
First flight of the Angara A5 rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome will include the new Orion upper stage, no payloads on board.
View in 3D map — Angara Vostochny Site TestEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-154 (6-48) mission on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 4:04 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-154 (6-48)Associations 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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