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 1825–1848
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Crew-1 (USCV-1, Resilience) mission on Monday, November 16, 2020 at 12:27 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Crew-1 (USCV-1, Resilience)Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket launched the NROL-101 mission on Friday, November 13, 2020 at 10:32 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — NROL-101Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 3B rocket launched the Tiantong-1 02 mission on Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 3:54 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Tiantong-1 02Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ISRO PSLV rocket launched the EOS-01 (RISAT-2BR2) mission on Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 9:42 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — EOS-01 (RISAT-2BR2)Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ISRO PSLV rocket launched the EOS-01 (RISAT-2BR2) mission on Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 9:42 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Kleos KSM (4x)Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ISRO PSLV rocket launched the EOS-01 (RISAT-2BR2) mission on Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 9:42 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Lemur (4x)Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ISRO PSLV rocket launched the EOS-01 (RISAT-2BR2) mission on Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 9:42 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — R2Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket launched the Ceres-1 Flight 1 mission on Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 7:10 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Ceres-1 Flight 1Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 6 rocket launched the ÑuSat 9-18 mission on Friday, November 6, 2020 at 3:18 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — ÑuSat 9-18Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the GPS III SV04 mission on Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 11:24 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — GPS III SV04Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the "In Focus" mission on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 9:21 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Canon CE-SAT-IIBEarth orbit · Launch payload
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the "In Focus" mission on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 9:21 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Planet Flock 4e' (9x)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 2C rocket launched the Yaogan-30-07 (3x) mission on Monday, October 26, 2020 at 3:19 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Yaogan-30-07 (3x)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Russian Military Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Glonass-K1 15L mission on Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 7:08 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Glonass-K1 15L
SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-15 (V1.0 L14) mission on Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 3:31 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-15 (V1.0 L14)SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-14 (V1.0 L13) mission on Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 12:25 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-14 (V1.0 L13)
Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Soyuz MS-17 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Soyuz MS program.
View in 3D map — Soyuz MS-17
Blue OriginarchiveSuborbital · Suborbital mission
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launched the NS-13 mission on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 1:38 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — NS-13Blue Originarchive
Suborbital flight · Human-spaceflight support
New Shepard NS-13 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the New Shepard program.
View in 3D map — New Shepard NS-13Earth orbit · Launch payload
A China Long March 3B rocket launched the Gaofen-13 mission on Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 4:57 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Gaofen-13SpaceXarchiveEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-13 (V1.0 L12) mission on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 11:29 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-13 (V1.0 L12)Earth orbit · Cargo mission
Cygnus NG-14 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Cygnus program.
View in 3D map — Cygnus NG-14Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched the CRS2 NG-14 (Cygnus, SS Kalpana Chawla) mission on Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 1:16 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — CRS2 NG-14 (Cygnus, SS Kalpana Chawla)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Russian Military Soyuz-2 rocket launched the Gonets-M 27/28/29 mission on Monday, September 28, 2020 at 11:20 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Gonets-M 27/28/29Associations 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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