SpaceTRC / Live Observatory
From space, right now: Earth, Türkiye, the Sun and the Moon
The International Space Station’s live camera, a view of Türkiye refreshed every ten minutes from 36,000 km up, the Sun as it looks now and tonight’s Moon. All from official NASA, EUMETSAT and NOAA sources, on one page, in real time.
1 · Live Earth
Live from the Space Station
NASA’s official stream comes from the station’s external cameras, about 420 km up and moving at 27,600 km/h. The station circles Earth roughly every 92 minutes, so its crew sees 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day.
If the picture is dark, the station is most likely over Earth’s night side (see the map) or NASA is switching cameras or relay satellites; the feed returns within minutes. If the player does not open, watch on NASA’s live streams page.
The orange line is the next 90 minutes of ground track, the dashed line where it has been, the shaded area Earth’s night side and the yellow dot the point where the Sun is directly overhead. To spot the station with your own eyes tonight, use the ISS pass finder.
The whole Earth, from 1.5 million km
NASA’s EPIC camera photographs our planet’s sunlit face throughout the day from the DSCOVR spacecraft, parked at the L1 point between Earth and the Sun. Use the slider to watch a day’s rotation. Images are published a few days after processing at NASA.
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2 · Türkiye from space, now
From 36,000 km up, every ten minutes
Europe’s new-generation weather satellite Meteosat-12 (MTG-I1) turns with Earth 35,786 km above the equator at 0° longitude. Its FCI imager scans the whole planet in 16 channels every ten minutes. The image below comes straight from EUMETSAT, from the latest scan.
How “now” is now?
The satellite scans Earth every ten minutes; processing and publishing take another 15–25 minutes. What you see is the sky of roughly half an hour ago. The time stamp is in your own time zone.
What to look for
Low-pressure systems spinning over the Black Sea, Saharan dust arriving from the south, wildfire smoke along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts in summer, snow cover over eastern Anatolia in winter and storm clouds growing.
Why this satellite?
The geostationary satellites that watch Türkiye continuously are the Meteosat family. NOAA’s GOES satellites cover the Americas and Japan’s Himawari the Asia-Pacific. Because the image is unrolled onto a flat map, some stretching appears towards the north.
Türkiye in high resolution: the daily pass
The VIIRS instrument on the polar-orbiting NOAA-20 satellite passes over Türkiye around midday every day, with enough detail to pick out cities, lakes and snow on the mountains. Choose a day or look at the night lights.
3 · Live Sun
The Sun as it is now, through five different eyes
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has watched the Sun without a break since 2010. Each wavelength shows gas at a different temperature, which is why images taken at the same moment look so different.
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Kp measures disturbance in Earth’s magnetic field on a scale of 0 to 9. Values of 5 and above are geomagnetic storms, which can affect satellites, GPS and power grids. From Türkiye’s latitudes, aurorae are visible only during very strong storms (Kp 8–9).
4 · Tonight’s Moon
What does the Moon look like right now?
No camera streams continuously from the Moon; live lunar pictures arrive only on mission days. Instead, we compute the Moon’s current phase on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mosaic, with rise and set times for the place you choose.
Computed for: … · times in your time zone
The view is simplified with north up; in the real sky the tilt of the crescent changes with time and latitude. Your location is used only for the calculation in your browser and is never stored.
5 · Live broadcasts and telescopes
The next live moments
Launches, spacewalks and Moon missions are broadcast live. Upcoming launches are listed below; when a webcast starts, a Live label appears on the row. For the full list and calendar export, see the launch schedule.
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NASA live streams
Space Station cameras, spacewalks, launches and news conferences. During Artemis missions, views of the Moon and Earth from Orion are streamed here too.
European Space Agency
Ariane 6 and Vega-C launches, astronaut missions and key moments of science missions are streamed live on ESA’s channel.
Virtual Telescope Project
A project that streams live observations of comets, eclipses and near-Earth asteroids through remotely operated telescopes in Italy.
Computed The Solar System, now: NASA Eyes
NASA’s 3D app showing where the planets and more than 100 spacecraft are right now, from real trajectory data. Tap to open.
Every window on this page carries a label: Live is a real video stream, ~10 min satellite and solar images refresh every few minutes, Daily images arrive once a day, and Computed values are calculated in your browser from real orbit data. Some “24/7 live Earth” channels on YouTube are loops of old recordings; we use official sources only.
- NASA, International Space Station live streams (official YouTube channel).
- EUMETSAT, Meteosat-12 (MTG-I1) and Meteosat MSG imagery via the EUMETView WMS service. Contains EUMETSAT data (© EUMETSAT 2026).
- NASA GIBS / Worldview: NOAA-20 VIIRS corrected reflectance, Black Marble and Blue Marble Next Generation layers.
- NASA EPIC team, DSCOVR EPIC natural-colour imagery.
- NASA/SDO and the AIA and HMI science teams; ESA/NASA SOHO LASCO.
- NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), planetary Kp index.
- Moon image: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University (LRO). Moon calculations: the open-source SunCalc library.
- Station orbit: CelesTrak NORAD GP data and satellite.js. Launches: The Space Devs, Launch Library 2.
- NASA/JPL, Eyes on the Solar System.
Last updated: 1 November 2026