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 1225–1248
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched the Tianmu-1 07-10 mission on Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 3:25 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianmu-1 07-10Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
Rocket Lab will attempt to recover the booster after a parachute splashdown.
View in 3D map — "Baby Come Back" (Starling)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Rocket Lab will attempt to recover the booster after a parachute splashdown.
View in 3D map — LEO 3Earth orbit · Launch payload
Rocket Lab will attempt to recover the booster after a parachute splashdown.
View in 3D map — Lemur-2Earth orbit · Launch payload
Final planned launch of v1.5 Starlink satellites.
View in 3D map — Starlink-92 (5-15)
Moon · Rover
Chandrayaan-3 Lander Module is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the Chandrayaan program.
View in 3D map — Chandrayaan-3 Lander ModuleMoonMoon · Launch payload
An ISRO GSLV-III rocket launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission on Friday, July 14, 2023 at 9:05 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Chandrayaan-3Earth orbit · Launch payload
LandSpace will attempt to become the first company to have a methane fueled rocket achieve orbit.
View in 3D map — Flight 2Earth orbit · Launch payload
SpaceX will set a new booster record with the 16th flight of B1058.
View in 3D map — Starlink-91 (6-5)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2C rocket launched the Test Internet Satellites mission on Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 11:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Test Internet SatellitesEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-90 (5-13) mission on Friday, July 7, 2023 at 7:29 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-90 (5-13)Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket launched the Syracuse-4B mission on Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 10:00 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Heinrich HertzEarth orbit · Launch payload
An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket launched the Syracuse-4B mission on Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 10:00 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Syracuse-4BSuborbital flight · Crewed mission
Galactic 01 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the SS2 program.
View in 3D map — Galactic 01Earth orbit · Launch payload
First launch of a new version of the Fregat-M second stage, carrying two Russian next generation Meteor-M meteorological satellites.
View in 3D map — Meteor-M no. 2-3Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-89 (5-12) mission on Friday, June 23, 2023 at 3:35 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-89 (5-12)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket launched the NROL-68 mission on Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 9:18 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — NROL-68Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-88 (5-7) mission on Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 7:17 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-88 (5-7)Earth orbit · Launch payload
The Shiyan-25 satellite will “mainly used in the fields of land census, urban planning and disaster prevention and mitigation”.
View in 3D map — Shiyan-25Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Satria mission on Sunday, June 18, 2023 at 10:21 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SatriaSuborbital · Suborbital mission
First launch of Rocket Lab's HASTE program.
View in 3D map — Dynamo-A (MACH-TB)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Jilin-1 (41x) mission on Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 5:30 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Jilin-1 (41x)Earth orbit · Launch payload
This satellite is part of the QPS-SAR constellation.
View in 3D map — QPS-SAR 6 (Amateru III)
SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter-8 mission on Monday, June 12, 2023 at 9:35 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Transporter-8Associations 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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