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 1153–1176
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-115 (7-5) mission on Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 8:23 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-115 (7-5)Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
Test flight for ISRO's new crew module, Gaganyaan.
View in 3D map — Gaganyaan Abort TestEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-114 (6-23) mission on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 12:36 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-114 (6-23)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yunhai-1 04 mission on Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 12:54 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yunhai-1 04Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-113 (6-22) mission on Friday, October 13, 2023 at 11:00 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-113 (6-22)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-112 (7-4) mission on Monday, October 9, 2023 at 7:23 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-112 (7-4)Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Arianespace Vega rocket launched the THEOS-2 mission on Monday, October 9, 2023 at 1:36 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SSMS no.5Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Arianespace Vega rocket launched the THEOS-2 mission on Monday, October 9, 2023 at 1:36 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — THEOS-2Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Arianespace Vega rocket launched the THEOS-2 mission on Monday, October 9, 2023 at 1:36 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TRITON (FORMOSAT 7R)Suborbital · Suborbital mission
Europe's first reusable rocket
View in 3D map — Miura 1 Test FlightEarth orbit · Launch payload
First 2 test satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation.
View in 3D map — Kuiper ProtoflightSuborbital flight · Crewed mission
Galactic 04 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the SS2 program.
View in 3D map — Galactic 04Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-111 (6-21) mission on Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 5:36 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-111 (6-21)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yaogan-39 03 mission on Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 12:24 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yaogan-39 03Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-110 (6-19) mission on Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 2:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-110 (6-19)Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Iran Qased rocket launched the Noor-3 mission on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 6:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Noor-3Earth orbit · Launch payload
Chinese military remote sensing satellite
View in 3D map — Yaogan-33 04Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-109 (7-3) mission on Monday, September 25, 2023 at 8:48 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-109 (7-3)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-108 (6-18) mission on Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 3:38 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-108 (6-18)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Jilin-1 Gaofen-04B satellite for commercial remote sensing firm Changguang Satellite Technology (CGST)
View in 3D map — Jilin-1 Gaofen-04BEarth orbit · Launch payload
Booster B1060 will be setting a new booster flight record launching for the 17th time.
View in 3D map — Starlink-107 (6-17)Earth orbit · Launch payload
The second of 4 missions for Capella Space launching the new generation Acadia Earth observation satellites.
View in 3D map — Acadia-2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yaogan 39-02 mission on Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 4:13 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yaogan 39-02Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-106 (6-16) mission on Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 3:38 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-106 (6-16)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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