Planets

Earth

The only known living world

Seventy percent ocean, one large moon, and the only place in the universe confirmed to host life.

Connected To

Curated graph

Essential facts — curated catalog
Distance from Sun	149.6 million km
Diameter	12,742 km
Known moons	1
Age	4.54 billion years

Photographed Whole

NASA EPIC · NOAA DSCOVR

A camera 1.5 million km away, at the point between Earth and the Sun, sees the entire sunlit face at once. Almost every other picture of the whole planet is stitched together from orbit — these are single frames.

17 Sep 2026 21:40 UTC

the Pacific, northern hemisphere tilted toward the Sun

One rotation

EPIC photographs the same face repeatedly as Earth turns beneath it, so these are one day passing rather than different places.

NASA EPIC aboard NOAA’s DSCOVR spacecraft, natural colour. Published a few days after capture — DSCOVR downlinks and NASA processes first — so this is the most recent set available, not today’s. NASA imagery is not subject to copyright and NASA does not endorse Everything Space.

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Cite this entry

“Earth.” Everything Space, curated catalog. everythingspace.online/explore/earth. Retrieved 20 Sep 2026.