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 1249–1272
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-87 (5-11) mission on Monday, June 12, 2023 at 7:10 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-87 (5-11)Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ExPace (China) Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched the Longjiang-3 mission on Friday, June 9, 2023 at 2:35 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Longjiang-3Earth orbit · Launch payload
Ride-share launch carrying 26 satellites
View in 3D map — Kinetica 1 Flight 2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the CRS2 SpX-28 (Dragon) mission on Monday, June 5, 2023 at 3:47 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — CRS2 SpX-28 (Dragon)
SpaceXarchive
Earth orbit · Cargo mission
Dragon CRS-28 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 Cargo program.
View in 3D map — Dragon CRS-28Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-86 (6-4) mission on Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 12:20 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-86 (6-4)SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-85 (2-10) mission on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 6:02 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-85 (2-10)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Military reconnaissance satellite belonging to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
View in 3D map — Malligyong-1Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Shenzhou 16 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Shenzhou program.
View in 3D map — Shenzhou 16Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ISRO GSLV-II rocket launched the IRNSS-1J (NVS-01) mission on Monday, May 29, 2023 at 5:12 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — IRNSS-1J (NVS-01)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Arabsat-7B (BADR-8) mission on Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 4:30 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Arabsat-7B (BADR-8)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Roscosmos Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Kondor-FKA no. 1 mission on Friday, May 26, 2023 at 9:14 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Kondor-FKA no. 1Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the "Coming to a Storm Near You" mission on Friday, May 26, 2023 at 3:46 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TROPICS Flight 3Earth orbit · Launch payload
KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) is launching 8 satellites, primarily the NEXTSat-2 X-band radar technology demonstrator.
View in 3D map — NEXTSat-2 & othersSuborbital flight · Crewed mission
Unity 25 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the SS2 program.
View in 3D map — Unity 25
Earth orbit · Cargo mission
Progress MS-23 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Progress MS program.
View in 3D map — Progress MS-23Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Roscosmos Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Progress MS-23 (84P) mission on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 12:56 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Progress MS-23 (84P)SpaceXarchive
Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Axiom Ax-2 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 program.
View in 3D map — Axiom Ax-2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Ax-2 mission on Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 9:37 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Ax-2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2C rocket launched the MSS 1A/1B mission on Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 8:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Luojia-2 01Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2C rocket launched the MSS 1A/1B mission on Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 8:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — MSS 1A/1BEarth orbit · Launch payload
1 OneWeb Gen2 test satellite is included, along with 15 Gen1 satellites.
View in 3D map — Iridium NEXT (Iridium-9)Earth orbit · Launch payload
1 OneWeb Gen2 test satellite is included, along with 15 Gen1 satellites.
View in 3D map — OneWeb-19SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-84 (6-3) mission on Friday, May 19, 2023 at 6:19 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-84 (6-3)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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