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 1033–1056
Earth orbit · Launch payload
Debut flight for Space One and the KAIROS rocket. It will carry a "quick response" satellite for the Japanese government.
View in 3D map — KAIROS-1Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
Rocket Lab's fourth mission for Synspective, launching the StriX-3 Earth-imaging satellite.
View in 3D map — StriX-3Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-145 (7-17) mission on Monday, March 11, 2024 at 4:09 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-145 (7-17)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-144 (6-43) mission on Monday, March 11, 2024 at 12:03 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-144 (6-43)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-143 (6-41) mission on Monday, March 4, 2024 at 11:54 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-143 (6-41)
SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
10th dedicated rideshare mission to Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO), 53 payloads on board.
View in 3D map — Transporter-10SpaceXarchive
Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Dragon Endeavour 5 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 program.
View in 3D map — Dragon Endeavour 5Earth orbit · Launch payload
Crew members: Commander Matthew Dominick (NASA), Pilot Michael Barratt (NASA), Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps (NASA), Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin (Roscosmos).
View in 3D map — Crew-8Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-142 (6-40) mission on Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 3:30 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-142 (6-40)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 3B rocket launched the WHG-01 mission on Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 1:03 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — WHG-01Earth orbit · Launch payload
Russia's new generation of meteorology satellites replacing the Meteor-3M series.
View in 3D map — Meteor-M no.2-4Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-141 (6-39) mission on Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 10:06 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-141 (6-39)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 5 rocket launched the TJSW-11 mission on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 11:30 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TJSW-11Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-140 (7-15) mission on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 4:11 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-140 (7-15)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A High Throughput Satellite (HTS) for Indonesia's state-owned Telkomsat telecommunications service.
View in 3D map — Merah Putih 2 (HTS-113BT)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Test mission for JAXA's Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project (CRD2).
View in 3D map — ADRAS-JEarth orbit · Launch payload
An ISRO GSLV-II rocket launched the INSAT-3DS mission on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 12:05 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — INSAT-3DSEarth orbit · Launch payload
This launch will now carry a mass simulator (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 4) instead of the ALOS-4 Earth observation satellite that was originally planned.
View in 3D map — CE-SAT-1EEarth orbit · Launch payload
This launch will now carry a mass simulator (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 4) instead of the ALOS-4 Earth observation satellite that was originally planned.
View in 3D map — TIRSATEarth orbit · Launch payload
This launch will now carry a mass simulator (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 4) instead of the ALOS-4 Earth observation satellite that was originally planned.
View in 3D map — VEP 4Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-139 (7-14) mission on Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 9:34 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-139 (7-14)MoonMoon · Launch payload
First lunar lander built and launched for NASA's CLPS program. This will be the first commercial lunar landing if successful.
View in 3D map — Nova-C IM-1
Earth orbit · Cargo mission
Progress MS-26 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Progress MS program.
View in 3D map — Progress MS-26Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Roscosmos Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Progress MS-26 (P87) mission on Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 3:25 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Progress MS-26 (P87)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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