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 121–144
Medium Earth Orbit · Communications
3 high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.
View in 3D map — O3b mPower 11-13Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Unconfirmed Vehicle rocket will launch the TBD mission on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TBDEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Starlink (15-24) mission on Saturday, September 5, 2026 at 11:13 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink (15-24)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Second test flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum launch vehicle. Includes several payloads for ESA's "Boost!" program, including for various European universities.
View in 3D map — CyBEEsatEarth orbit · Launch payload
Second test flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum launch vehicle. Includes several payloads for ESA's "Boost!" program, including for various European universities.
View in 3D map — FramSat-1Earth orbit · Launch payload
This payload is a non-separable experiment attached to the Spectrum rocket's upper stage.
View in 3D map — Let It GoEarth orbit · Launch payload
Second test flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum launch vehicle. Includes several payloads for ESA's "Boost!" program, including for various European universities.
View in 3D map — Platform 6Earth orbit · Launch payload
Second test flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum launch vehicle. Includes several payloads for ESA's "Boost!" program, including for various European universities.
View in 3D map — SpaceTeamSat1Earth orbit · Launch payload
Second test flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum launch vehicle. Includes several payloads for ESA's "Boost!" program, including for various European universities.
View in 3D map — Spectrum Flight TwoEarth orbit · Launch payload
Second test flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum launch vehicle. Includes several payloads for ESA's "Boost!" program, including for various European universities.
View in 3D map — TriSat-SEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Starlink (15-23) mission on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 7:46 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink (15-23)
Moon · Human Exploration
First planned mission of ESA’s Argonaut lunar lander, aimed at proving cargo-delivery capability for sustained European and partner operations on the Moon.
Low Earth orbit · Astrophysics
ESA astronomy mission to image the faint haloes of nearby galaxies and investigate their formation history.
Low Earth orbit · Human Exploration
2027 low-Earth-orbit demonstration of SLS, Orion, the European Service Module, and lunar-landing systems.
Moon · Human Exploration
Artemis IV is NASA’s planned continuation of the lunar return campaign, with Gateway assembly and a lunar landing in the current architecture.
Moon · Human Exploration
Artemis V is the next planned crewed lunar mission in NASA’s Artemis campaign and is intended to extend Gateway and surface operations.
Moon · Robotic Exploration
Astrobotic-3 is a placeholder for Astrobotic’s third planned lunar delivery under NASA’s CLPS campaign.
Moon · Lunar Exploration
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 2 is a planned far-side lunar delivery that pairs the lander with the Elytra Dark transfer vehicle.
Moon · Lunar Exploration
Blue Ghost Mission 3 is Firefly’s third planned lunar delivery under NASA’s CLPS campaign.
Blue Originupcoming
Moon · Robotic Exploration
Blue Origin's uncrewed Blue Moon Mark 1 cargo lander, flight vehicle Endurance.
Blue Originupcoming
Moon · Crewed lunar landing system
Blue Origin-led crewed lunar lander for NASA's sustained Artemis missions.
Low Earth orbit · Astrophysics
COSI is NASA’s wide-field gamma-ray telescope mission for studying energetic phenomena, matter-antimatter creation, and stellar evolution.
Moon · Sample return
Chandrayaan-4 is ISRO's approved lunar sample-return mission architecture, built from five modules to land, collect samples, and return them.
Moon · Planetary Science
China's lunar south-pole mission, now delayed from its 2026 window, with an orbiter, lander, hopping probe, and rover.
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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