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 1417–1440
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Hotbird-13F mission on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 5:22 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Hotbird-13FPrimary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yaogan-36 02 mission on Friday, October 14, 2022 at 7:12 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yaogan-36 02Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2C rocket launched the S-SAR01 (Huanjing-2E) mission on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 10:53 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — S-SAR01 (Huanjing-2E)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Roscosmos Proton-M rocket launched the Angosat-2 mission on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 3:00 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Angosat-2Earth orbit · Launch payload
Both satellites were intended to be part of the QPS-SAR constellation, nevertheless they were destroyed together with the Epsilon rocket's third stage, as it could not reach the appropriate orbit.
View in 3D map — QPS-SAR 3 and 4 (Amateru I and II)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A JAXA Epsilon rocket launched the RAISE-3 mission on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 12:50 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — RAISE-3Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Russian Military Soyuz-2 rocket launched the GLONASS-K1 17L mission on Monday, October 10, 2022 at 2:52 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — GLONASS-K1 17LEarth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory (ASO-S) mission on Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 11:43 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory (ASO-S)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Intelsat G-33/G-34 (Galaxy 33 & 34) mission on Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 11:06 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Intelsat G-33/G-34 (Galaxy 33 & 34)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the "It Argos Up From Here" mission on Friday, October 7, 2022 at 5:09 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — GAzelle w/ Argos-4Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 11 rocket launched the Weili Kongjian-1 S5 & S6 mission on Friday, October 7, 2022 at 1:10 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Weili Kongjian-1 S5 & S6
SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-63 (4-29) mission on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 11:10 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-63 (4-29)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Crew-5 mission on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 4:01 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Crew-5SpaceXarchive
Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Endurance Crew-5 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 program.
View in 3D map — Endurance Crew-5Earth orbit · Launch payload
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket launched the SES-20 & SES-21 mission on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 9:36 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SES-20 & SES-21Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Firefly Alpha rocket launched the "To the Black" mission on Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 7:01 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Alpha Flight 2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 6 rocket launched the Shiyan-16 & Shiyan-17 mission on Monday, September 26, 2022 at 11:50 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan-16 & Shiyan-17Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yaogan-36 01 mission on Monday, September 26, 2022 at 1:38 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yaogan-36 01SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-62 (4-35) mission on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 11:32 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-62 (4-35)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched the Shiyan-14 & Shiyan-15 mission on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 10:55 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan-14 & Shiyan-15Earth orbit · Launch payload
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket launched the NROL-91 mission on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 10:25 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — NROL-91
Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Soyuz MS-22 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Soyuz MS program.
View in 3D map — Soyuz MS-22Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yunhai-1 03 mission on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 11:15 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yunhai-1 03SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-61 (4-34) mission on Monday, September 19, 2022 at 12:18 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-61 (4-34)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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