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 1609–1632
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket launched the Golden Bauhinia-5 mission on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 4:12 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — BaoyunPrimary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket launched the Golden Bauhinia-5 mission on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 4:12 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Golden Bauhinia-5Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket launched the Golden Bauhinia-5 mission on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 4:12 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Lize-1Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Arianespace Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Galileo 27-28 mission on Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 12:19 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Galileo 27-28Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-32 (4-3) mission on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 11:12 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — 2x Blacksky
SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-32 (4-3) mission on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 11:12 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-32 (4-3)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 3B rocket launched the ChinaSat-1D mission on Friday, November 26, 2021 at 4:40 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — ChinaSat-1DEarth orbit · Launch payload
A Russian Military Soyuz-2 rocket launched the EKS-5 mission on Thursday, November 25, 2021 at 1:09 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — EKS-5Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ExPace (China) Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched the Shiyan-11 mission on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 11:41 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan-11
Earth orbit · Cargo mission
Progress M-UM is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Progress M-SO program.
View in 3D map — Progress M-UMEarth orbit · Launch payload
A Roscosmos Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Prichal ISS Module mission on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 1:06 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Prichal ISS ModuleEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the DART mission on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 6:21 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — DARTEarth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 4C rocket launched the Gaofen 3-02 mission on Monday, November 22, 2021 at 11:45 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Gaofen 3-02Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Astra Space Rocket 3 rocket launched the STP-27AD2 mission on Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 6:16 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — STP-27AD2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 4B rocket launched the Gaofen-11 03 mission on Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 1:51 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Gaofen-11 03Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the "Love at First Insight" mission on Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 1:38 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — BlackSky (1)Earth orbit · Launch payload
An Arianespace Vega rocket launched the CERES mission on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 9:27 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — CERESSpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-31 (4-1) mission on Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 12:19 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-31 (4-1)SpaceXarchive
Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Dragon Endurance is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 program.
View in 3D map — Dragon EnduranceEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Crew-3 (Dragon) mission on Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 2:03 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Crew-3 (Dragon)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A JAXA Epsilon rocket launched the RAISE 2 mission on Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 12:51 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — RAISE 2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2D rocket launched the Yaogan-35 mission on Saturday, November 6, 2021 at 3:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yaogan-35Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 6 rocket launched the SDGSAT-1 mission on Friday, November 5, 2021 at 2:19 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SDGSAT-1Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2C rocket launched the Yaogan-32 02 mission on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 7:45 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yaogan-32 02Associations 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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