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 97–120
Earth orbit · Astrophysics
NASA's StarBurst SmallSat will detect high-energy gamma rays from neutron-star mergers and other transient events alongside ground-based gravitational-wave observatories.
View in 3D map — StarBurstPrimary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Sun–Earth L2 · Astrophysics
ESA exoplanet mission planned for a 2027 launch to discover and characterize terrestrial worlds around nearby bright stars.
View in 3D map — PLATOEarth orbit · Earth Science
NASA's three-SmallSat INCUS mission will investigate how tropical convective storms, heavy precipitation, and clouds form and evolve.
View in 3D map — INCUSLow Earth orbit · Astrophysics
Aspera is a NASA astrophysics SmallSat that will study hot gas in the intergalactic medium using ultraviolet light signatures.
View in 3D map — AsperaLow Earth orbit · Test Flight
Gaganyaan-1 is ISRO's first uncrewed orbital test flight for validating India's human-spaceflight stack before crewed missions.
View in 3D map — Gaganyaan-1
Moon · Lunar Exploration
Intuitive Machines' third Nova-C lunar lander mission, planned to deliver payloads to the Moon and use Falcon 9 excess capacity for rideshares.
View in 3D map — Nova-C IM-3
Moon · Robotic lunar rover
The UAE's second Rashid lunar rover, selected to fly on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 2.
View in 3D map — Rashid Rover 2Earth orbit · Launch payload
98th Progress cargo delivery to the International Space Station (98P)
View in 3D map — Progress MS-37
Moon · Lunar Exploration
Griffin Mission One is Astrobotic’s planned lunar delivery flight for the Griffin lander and its payloads, including FLIP.
View in 3D map — Griffin Mission OneEarth orbit · Launch payload
97th Progress cargo delivery to the International Space Station (97P)
View in 3D map — Progress MS-36Earth orbit · Launch payload
Roscosmos announced that Sputnix company will launch a Soyuz launch vehicle carrying all-commercial satellites from the Vostochny Cosmodrome this September. The payload mentioned so far in several press announcement consist of: small satellites Kinosputnik, KOEN, "MT-LAB", cubesat 6U NPO "Kaisant" with modem "Germes", cubesat 16U NPO "Kaisant" with modem "Gonets".
View in 3D map — KOEN/Kinosputnik (Commercial Payload)Earth · Earth Science
EUMETSAT's first Metop Second Generation B-type satellite, built to provide global microwave observations for weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
View in 3D map — Metop-SG B1Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Starlink (15-27) mission on Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 1:47 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink (15-27)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Unconfirmed Vehicle rocket will launch the TBD mission on Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 10:50 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TBD
SpaceXupcomingLow Earth Orbit · Test Flight
14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3 and the first Starship flight to deploy satellites (a group of Starlink satellites) into stable Low Earth Orbit.
View in 3D map — Flight 14Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Unconfirmed Vehicle rocket will launch the TBD mission on Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 2:35 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TBDEarth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Unconfirmed Vehicle rocket will launch the TBD mission on Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TBDLow Earth Orbit · Resupply
Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
View in 3D map — Progress MS-35 (96P)Earth orbit · Launch payload
96th Progress cargo delivery to the International Space Station (96P)
View in 3D map — Progress MS-35Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Unconfirmed Vehicle rocket will launch the TBD mission on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 9:55 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TBDEarth orbit · Launch payload
A LandSpace Unconfirmed Vehicle rocket will launch the TBD mission on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 6:25 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TBDEarth · Earth Science
Third Sentinel-3 satellite, continuing systematic measurements of Earth's oceans, land, ice, and atmosphere.
View in 3D map — Copernicus Sentinel-3CEarth · Earth Science
ESA's Earth Explorer mission to measure vegetation fluorescence and photosynthetic activity from orbit.
View in 3D map — FLEXEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the O3b mPOWER-6 (11, 12 & 13) mission on Sunday, September 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — O3b mPOWER-6 (11, 12 & 13)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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