/planet-lab
A live window on Earth from the ISS, and every planet spinning and orbiting the Sun in real time. Scroll to meet each world — Mercury out to Pluto.
Real NASA textures. Real orbital periods. Drag to orbit the camera, scroll to zoom, click any planet to fly to it.
Planet 01
The scorched messenger closest to the Sun.
Mercury is the smallest planet and closest to the Sun. It has almost no atmosphere, so days scorch and nights freeze. NASA's MESSENGER (2011–2015) and ESA/JAXA's BepiColombo (arrival 2026) map its iron-rich, heavily cratered surface.
Planet 02
Earth's twin — wrapped in acid clouds.
Venus rotates backwards and spins so slowly that a Venusian day is longer than its year. Its runaway greenhouse — 96% CO₂, sulfuric-acid clouds — makes it the hottest world in the Solar System. Active missions: DAVINCI, VERITAS, EnVision (all mid-2030s).
Planet 03
The only planet we know that's alive.
Earth is the only known world with liquid surface water, plate tectonics, and life. From 400 km up, the ISS crew watches sunrises every 90 minutes — the live stream on this page shows exactly what they see.
Planet 04
The rusty desert humans plan to walk on.
Mars hosts the tallest volcano (Olympus Mons, 22 km) and the deepest canyon (Valles Marineris, 4,000 km) in the Solar System. Perseverance, Curiosity, and Ingenuity's descendants continue the search for ancient life while SpaceX iterates Starship toward a crewed landing.
Planet 05
King of the planets — a failed star.
Jupiter is more massive than every other planet combined. Its Galilean moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto — are worlds of their own; ESA's JUICE (arrival 2031) and NASA's Europa Clipper (arrival 2030) will study the liquid oceans beneath their ice.
Planet 06
The jewel of the Solar System.
Saturn's rings are 99% water ice, only tens of meters thick, and possibly younger than the dinosaurs. Titan — thick nitrogen atmosphere, methane rivers — is the target for NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft (launch 2028, arrival 2034).
Planet 07
The tilted ice giant that rolls on its side.
Uranus rotates almost perpendicular to its orbit — likely knocked over by an ancient collision. Its faint rings and pale cyan atmosphere (methane absorbs red light) hide a water/ammonia/methane-ice mantle. The last visitor was Voyager 2 in 1986.
Planet 08
The wind world at the edge of the Sun's reach.
Neptune has the fastest winds in the Solar System. Triton orbits backwards — likely a captured Kuiper-belt object with active nitrogen geysers. Discovered by mathematics (Le Verrier, 1846) before it was ever seen.
Planet 09
Dwarf planet with a heart-shaped glacier.
New Horizons flew past Pluto in July 2015 and revealed Sputnik Planitia — a nitrogen-ice heart 1,000 km wide, still slowly convecting. Pluto and Charon are tidally locked to each other: they always show the same face.
Live Earth-from-space feed using an embeddable ISS/NASA source. · If your network blocks embedded video, open the source directly: YouTube.
Data from NASA Solar System Exploration & Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Live streams © NASA, ISS partners, SpaceX — embedded via YouTube.