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 1369–1392
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the SWOT mission on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 11:46 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SWOTPrimary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 11 rocket launched the Shiyan-21 mission on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 6:17 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan-21Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yaogan-36 04 mission on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 6:25 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yaogan-36 04Earth orbit · Launch payload
A LandSpace Zhuque-2 rocket launched the Zhuque-2 Demo Flight mission on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 9:30 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Zhuque-2 Demo FlightEarth orbit · Launch payload
An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket launched the Galaxy-35 & Galaxy-36 mission on Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 8:30 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Galaxy-35 & Galaxy-36Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket launched the Galaxy-35 & Galaxy-36 mission on Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 8:30 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — MTG-I1Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 4C rocket launched the Shiyan-20A & Shiyan-20B mission on Monday, December 12, 2022 at 8:22 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan-20A & Shiyan-20B
Moon · Deep-space mission
Hakuto-R M1 is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the iSpace program.
View in 3D map — Hakuto-R M1MoonMoon · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the ispace HAKUTO-R M1 mission on Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 7:38 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Lunar FlashlightMoonMoon · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the ispace HAKUTO-R M1 mission on Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 7:38 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — ispace HAKUTO-R M1Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Jielong-3 rocket launched the Demo Flight mission on Friday, December 9, 2022 at 6:35 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Demo FlightEarth orbit · Research mission
Huoju-1 is catalogued by GCAT as a space biology mission in the Huoju program.
View in 3D map — Huoju-1Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Gaofen-5 01A mission on Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 6:31 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Gaofen-5 01AEarth orbit · Launch payload
An ExPace (China) Kuaizhou 11 rocket launched the VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) mission on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 1:15 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — VHF Data Exchange System (VDES)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Russian Military Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Kosmos-2565 mission on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 9:10 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Kosmos-2565
Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Shenzhou 15 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Shenzhou program.
View in 3D map — Shenzhou 15Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Russian Military Soyuz-2 rocket launched the GLONASS-M mission on Monday, November 28, 2022 at 3:17 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — GLONASS-MEarth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yaogan-36 03 mission on Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 12:23 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yaogan-36 03
SpaceXarchive
Earth orbit · Cargo mission
Dragon CRS-26 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 Cargo program.
View in 3D map — Dragon CRS-26Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the CRS2 SpX-26 (Dragon) mission on Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 7:20 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — CRS2 SpX-26 (Dragon)Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ISRO PSLV rocket launched the Oceansat-3 (EOS-6) mission on Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 6:26 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Oceansat-3 (EOS-6)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Eutelsat-10B mission on Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 2:57 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Eutelsat-10BSuborbital · Suborbital mission
A Skyroot Aerospace Vikram rocket was set to launch the PRARAMBH mission on Friday, November 18, 2022 at 5:30 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — PRARAMBH
Moon · Deep-space mission
Orion is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the Artemis program.
View in 3D map — OrionAssociations 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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