The Earth

The only planet we can photograph from the inside and the outside at the same time. Here's the outside view, live.

The Living Map

Everything the planet is doing right now, on a globe lit by the real Sun: wildfires and storms tracked by NASA's Earth Observatory, volcanoes acting up, and every earthquake above magnitude 2.5 in the last 24 hours. The hemisphere in shadow is the night side.

Now Happening

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Wildfire Severe storm Volcano Earthquake (size = magnitude)

Drag to spin, scroll or pinch to zoom, let go and it keeps turning. Switch layers to read sea-surface temperature, chlorophyll blooms, or sea ice, or dive to the seafloor; the live events stay pinned on every view. On Natural, the day/night line is the real terminator. Hover for the coordinates and nearest event; click a pin or a row below for details.

Notable right now

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    About these feeds

    Natural events come from NASA's Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET), which curates satellite-observed wildfires, storms, and volcanic activity. Earthquakes come from the USGS real-time feed, updated about every minute. The globe uses NASA's Blue Marble and city-lights imagery, with the day/night terminator computed in your browser from the Sun's real position. Hover any pin for its name; click for the full report.

    The Full Disk, Live

    A geostationary satellite parked over the Pacific or the Americas, watching the whole face of the planet at once. GeoColor stitches visible light by day and infrared cloud-top temperatures by night, so the view never goes dark.

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    Latest full-disk GeoColor image of Earth from NOAA GOES
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    GeoColor: true color by day, infrared clouds by night. A new frame every 10 minutes from 22,236 miles (35,786 km) up. The loop replays the last two hours; the slider rewinds a full day — every frame is fetched straight from NOAA's archive as you scrub. Still and Loop snap back to live.

    A Whole Day, From a Million Miles

    The EPIC camera rides DSCOVR at the L1 point — the gravitational balance point between Earth and Sun — so it's the only camera that always sees the entire daylit planet. Here's its most recent complete day, one frame about every two hours: the Earth, simply turning.

    EPIC day loop

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    Animation of the full sunlit Earth rotating, photographed by NASA's EPIC camera from the L1 point
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    Planetary Vitals

    Three numbers that describe the patient. The maps above show the planet's weather; these show its trend lines — measured continuously, published openly, updated here every day.

    Atmosphere
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    Reading Mauna Loa…
    NOAA GML
    Arctic sea ice
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    Reading the Sea Ice Index…
    NSIDC
    In orbit
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    Counting the catalog…
    CelesTrak

    The CO₂ record began at Mauna Loa in 1958 — the Keeling Curve, the longest continuous reading of the planet's breath. Sea ice is the Arctic daily extent. The orbit count is every active spacecraft in the public catalog.