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 1081–1104
Earth orbit · Launch payload
Debut flight for OrienSpace and their Gravity-1 rocket. The launch was from the Haiyang Spaceport in China's coastal waters.
View in 3D map — Yunyao-1 18-20Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ExPace (China) Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched the Tianxing-1-02 mission on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 3:52 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianxing-1-02Earth orbit · Launch payload
Chinese astronomy observatory for detecting energy flashes of cosmic events, including supernovas and stars affected by black holes.
View in 3D map — Einstein ProbeMoonMoon · Launch payload
150 flight capsules containing cremated remains, DNA samples, and messages to space. Included remains on this flight: Gene and Majel Roddenberry, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, and Nichelle Nichols.
View in 3D map — Celestis Enterprise FlightMoonMoon · Launch payload
Debut launch of ULA's new Vulcan rocket. Astrobotic's Peregrine lander will carry 16 customer payloads to the lunar surface.
View in 3D map — Peregrine 1
Moon · Lunar lander
Astrobotic’s first lunar lander mission ended in a controlled Earth re-entry after a propulsion-system failure prevented the planned Moon landing.
View in 3D map — Peregrine Mission OneEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-132 (6-35) mission on Sunday, January 7, 2024 at 10:35 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-132 (6-35)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Continuation of the Tianmu-1 meteorology satellite constellation.
View in 3D map — Tianmu-1 15-18Earth orbit · Launch payload
Payload is a small communications satellite built by Maxar Technologies for the Sweden/U.S. company Ovzon.
View in 3D map — Ovzon-3Earth orbit · Launch payload
131st dedicated Starlink mission. This launch will contain 6 test satellites with direct-to-device service.
View in 3D map — Starlink-131 (7-9)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Second test satellite for China's SatNet internet constellation.
View in 3D map — SatNet Demo 2Earth orbit · Launch payload
130th dedicated Starlink mssion. This became SpaceX's final launch for 2023, setting the new record at 96 for a calendar year.
View in 3D map — Starlink-130 (6-36)Earth orbit · Launch payload
The USAF's X-37B spaceplane will launch on board.
View in 3D map — USSF-52 (OTV-7)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Launch contained a military satellite payload.
View in 3D map — Cosmos 2574Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ExPace (China) Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched the Tianmu-1 19-22 mission on Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 6:50 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianmu-1 19-22Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 3B rocket launched the Beidou-3 M25 & 26 mission on Tuesday, December 26, 2023 at 3:20 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Beidou-3 M25 & 26Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 11 rocket launched the Shiyan 24C mission on Monday, December 25, 2023 at 10:39 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan 24CEarth orbit · Launch payload
An ExPace (China) Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched the Tianmu-1 11-14 mission on Monday, December 25, 2023 at 1:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianmu-1 11-14Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the SARah 2 & 3 mission on Sunday, December 24, 2023 at 1:11 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SARah 2 & 3Earth orbit · Launch payload
This launch will set a new booster flight record, 19th flight for booster B1058
View in 3D map — Starlink-129 (6-32)Earth orbit · Launch payload
The mission will launch a Lockheed Martin new Electronically Steerable Antenna (ESA) wideband satellite.
View in 3D map — Fly The LightningSuborbital · Suborbital mission
Reflight of the payloads from the failed NS-23 mission from September 2022.
View in 3D map — NS-24Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-128 (6-34) mission on Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 4:01 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-128 (6-34)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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