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 →8817 linked missions · showing 1345–1368
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yaogan-37 mission on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 7:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan-22Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yaogan-37 mission on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 7:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yaogan-37Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2C rocket launched the APStar-6E mission on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 6:10 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — APStar-6EEarth orbit · Launch payload
An ABL Space RS1 rocket launched the RS1 Flight 1 mission on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 11:27 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — RS1 Flight 1Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket launched the "Start Me Up" mission on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 11:09 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — AMANEarth orbit · Launch payload
A Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket launched the "Start Me Up" mission on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 11:09 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — CIRCEEarth orbit · Launch payload
A Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket launched the "Start Me Up" mission on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 11:09 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — DOVEREarth orbit · Launch payload
A Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket launched the "Start Me Up" mission on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 11:09 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — IOD-3 AMBEREarth orbit · Launch payload
A Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket launched the "Start Me Up" mission on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 11:09 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Prometheus-2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket launched the "Start Me Up" mission on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 11:09 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — STORK-6Earth orbit · Research mission
ForgeStar-0 is catalogued by GCAT as a microgravity research mission in the Space Forge program.
View in 3D map — ForgeStar-0Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket launched the "Give Me Five" mission on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 5:04 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Keji-1Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket launched the "Give Me Five" mission on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 5:04 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Nantong ZhongxueEarth orbit · Launch payload
A Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket launched the "Give Me Five" mission on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 5:04 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianmu-1-01/02Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket launched the "Give Me Five" mission on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 5:04 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tianqi-13Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 7 rocket launched the Shijian-23 mission on Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 11:00 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shijian-23
SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter-6 mission on Tuesday, January 3, 2023 at 2:56 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Transporter-6Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the ISI EROS C-3 mission on Friday, December 30, 2022 at 7:38 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — ISI EROS C-3Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 3B rocket launched the Shiyan-10-02 mission on Thursday, December 29, 2022 at 4:43 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan-10-02SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-67 (5-1) mission on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at 9:34 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-67 (5-1)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 4B rocket launched the Gaofen-11 04 mission on Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 7:37 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Gaofen-11 04Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Arianespace Vega C rocket launched the Pléiades-Neo 5 & 6 mission on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 1:47 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Pléiades-Neo 5 & 6SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-66 (4-37) mission on Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 9:32 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-66 (4-37)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the O3b mPower-1 mission on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 10:48 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — O3b mPower-1Associations 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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