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 1297–1320
SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-78 (5-10) mission on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 8:01 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-78 (5-10)Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Russian Military Soyuz-2 rocket launched the EO MKA #4 mission on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 7:00 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — EO MKA #4Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Israel Space Agency Shavit-2 rocket launched the Ofek-13 mission on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 11:10 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Ofek-13Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ISRO GSLV-III rocket launched the OneWeb-18 mission on Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 3:30 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — OneWeb-18SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-77 (5-5) mission on Friday, March 24, 2023 at 3:43 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-77 (5-5)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the "The Beat Goes On" mission on Friday, March 24, 2023 at 9:14 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — 2x BlackskyEarth orbit · Launch payload
A Russian Military Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Kosmos-2567 mission on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 6:40 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Kosmos-2567Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Relativity Space Terran 1 rocket launched the "Good Luck, Have Fun" mission on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 3:25 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Terran 1 Flight 1Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ExPace (China) Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched the Tianmu-1 03-06 mission on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 9:09 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianmu-1 03-06Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the SES-18 & SES-19 mission on Friday, March 17, 2023 at 11:38 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SES-18 & SES-19SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-76 (2-8) mission on Friday, March 17, 2023 at 7:26 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-76 (2-8)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 3B rocket launched the Gaofen-13 02 mission on Friday, March 17, 2023 at 8:33 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Gaofen-13 02Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the "Stronger Together" mission on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 10:38 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Capella-9 & Capella-10Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 11 rocket launched the Shiyan-19 mission on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 11:41 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan-19SpaceXarchive
Earth orbit · Cargo mission
Dragon CRS-27 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 Cargo program.
View in 3D map — Dragon CRS-27Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the CRS2 SpX-27 (Dragon) mission on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 12:30 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — CRS2 SpX-27 (Dragon)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2C rocket launched the Horus-2 mission on Monday, March 13, 2023 at 4:02 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Horus-2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Russian Military Proton-M rocket launched the Olymp-K 2 mission on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 11:12 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Olymp-K 2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 4C rocket launched the Tianhui-6 A&B mission on Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 10:41 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianhui-6 A&BEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the OneWeb-17 mission on Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 7:13 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — OneWeb-17Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-3 rocket launched the ALOS-3 mission on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 1:37 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — ALOS-3SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-75 (2-7) mission on Friday, March 3, 2023 at 6:38 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-75 (2-7)SpaceXarchive
Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Dragon Endeavour 4 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 program.
View in 3D map — Dragon Endeavour 4Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Crew-6 mission on Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 5:34 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Crew-6Associations 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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