TERRA
The whole planet, seen from orbit. Scroll to descend through its layers.
The atmosphere is stripped away
Cloud and haze disappear, leaving the planet's bare geography.
The oceans drain
Shallow shelves emerge first; the deepest trenches hold out longest.
A cross-section of Earth
A wedge opens through the planet, revealing crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.
The mantle
The crust dissolves to expose dark basalt veined with incandescent fractures.
The outer core
Molten iron churns in orange convection lanes beneath the mantle.
The inner core
A silver-hot crystalline sphere remains at the planet's centre, split by gold-lit fractures.
Return to orbit
Core, mantle, crust, oceans, and atmosphere reassemble in sequence.
The planet is whole again
rendered live · surface imagery NASA · © MMXXVI