The Earth

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

GOES-West · Full Disk

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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 — watch the weather move and the terminator creep.

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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The Living Map

Everything the planet is doing right now: 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 shaded region is night.

Now Happening

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Wildfire Severe storm Volcano Earthquake (size = magnitude)

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. Basemap: NASA GIBS Blue Marble. Hover any marker for its name.