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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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.