3D planet view · Observational composite
Explore Earth in COSMOS
A cloud-free global mosaic assembled from satellite observations. It is a scientific composite, not a single photograph. The link below opens the explorer, flying the camera to Earth with its position set by the archived planetary state.
Measured facts
- Mean radius
- 6,371 kmPublished mean radius stored as renderer geometry.
- Mean diameter
- 12,742 km
- Distance from Earth at the recorded epoch
- 0 km · 0.0 milliseconds light time
- Closest camera approach
- 6,551 km from the body centre (180 km above the mean-radius surface)
What opens when you follow this link
COSMOS opens in the same continuous 3D scene and moves the camera to Earth. Nothing reloads, and the breadcrumb trail stays clickable for the way back outward through the Solar System, the measured stellar catalogue and the Galactic view.
If your browser cannot run WebGL2, this page is still the useful part: it carries the identity, the measured values and the provenance, in text.
Where the full record lives
This page is the share link. The complete data record for Earth — delivered imagery resolution, observation epoch, source licence, processing chain and every disclosed limitation — is on its reference page, which is linked below.
Datasets behind this page
- JPL Horizons planetary state archive (2020–2040)NASA/JPL Horizons · derived-scientific-model · One discrete geometric state vector per object at JD 2461281.5 TDB
- NASA Blue Marble surface imageryNASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) · observational-composite · 500 m source visualization; delivered to zoom 8 (~611 m/px at equator)
Content updated 2026-09-26. Every value on this page is computed from the shipped datasets; where a source publishes no value, the page says so instead of estimating one.