Live · last 7 days ·

Look up. They looked down.

Choose any place on Earth. HeavenLab works out every Earth-observation satellite that crossed over it in the past week, and shows the actual pictures they took.

Quick picks — or tap a spot on the globe

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Earth: NASA Blue Marble (public domain) · Orbits: CelesTrak

How it works

Live data, worked out in your browser

01Every pass, computed

Fresh orbital elements from CelesTrak for about 170 Earth-observation satellites, propagated with SGP4 for the past 7 days to find each one that crossed your spot.

02The pictures they took

Sentinel-2 (10 m) and Landsat 8/9 (30 m) scenes from the public Planetary Computer catalogue, plus daily MODIS views from NASA GIBS, each with date, satellite and cloud over your spot.

03The sky right now

UTC time, where the Sun is overhead, how high it stands at your place, and how many tracked satellites are above your horizon this second.

04Open to everyone

Free, live and nothing stored. Your location stays in your browser; share a place with a plain link that reopens the same view.

Field notes · Antarctica

Discoveries

Four previously uncatalogued Antarctic subglacial lakes found with free satellite data — preprints by Cristian Andrade.

Lake tracker →