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Interactive 3D globe
Interactive 3D globe: the live Earth in your browser
An interactive 3D globe of the Earth that you can spin, tilt and zoom from orbit down to a single street, with the live world drawn on it: aircraft, ships, satellites, earthquakes and fires. Right now it holds 4,702 aircraft in the air, 28,360 ships, 818 satellites and 186 earthquakes from the last 24 hours, as of .
Unlock the 3D globe: Black Clearance $9.99/mo
The 3D globe and photorealistic 3D cities come with Black Clearance. The flat 2D live map is free for everyone, with live flights, ships, satellites, earthquakes and fires.
What is on the globe right now?
Everything that has reported its position to a public feed recently. The time under each count is when it was read.
- Aircraft in the air
- 4,70214:20 UTC
- Ships reporting
- 28,36014:21 UTC
- Satellites, free catalogue
- 818
- Earthquakes, last 24 hours
- 18614:21 UTC
- Wildfires being tracked
- 7914:21 UTC
- Incidents, last 7 days
- 49314:21 UTC
Ships are those heard on AIS in the last 30 minutes. Satellites are the free catalogue: the space stations, bright satellites, navigation satellites and geostationary satellites. Black Clearance adds 10,608 Starlink satellites. Incidents are what the Ops Center lists: quakes, storms, floods, fires, conflict reports and advisories.
What can you do on a live 3D globe?
Fly anywhere on Earth and watch what is moving there. Follow an aircraft and see its trail climb and descend over real terrain, or ride along from the cockpit. Watch ships queue outside a port, a satellite cross the sky, or the earthquakes of the last day light up along the plate edges. Tilt the view over a city and the buildings stand up in 3D.
- 3D globe
- Photorealistic 3D cities
- Satellite base map
- Cockpit ride-along
- Live 3D landing view
- Starlink and dense satellite sets
- Military aircraft
All of these come with Black Clearance. The vision modes (Night Ops, Thermal, CCTV and the rest) are free on the 2D map too.
What is free, and what needs Black Clearance?
Every plan reads the same live feeds. Black Clearance changes how you see them, in 3D with real cities and terrain instead of on the flat map, and adds layers such as military aircraft and rain radar. It costs $9.99 a month or $79 a year.
| Free (Field Agent) | Black Clearance ($9.99 a month) | |
|---|---|---|
| The map | The flat 2D live map of the whole world | A 3D globe you can tilt, spin and fly through |
| Base maps | Dark, street and terrain maps | Adds satellite imagery |
| Cities | Flat, with place names | Photorealistic 3D cities |
| Aircraft | Live flights around wherever you look | Adds the Military layer and the cockpit view |
| Ships | Live ships from AIS | Adds the vessel table and world ports |
| Satellites | The core catalogue of 818 satellites | Adds Starlink and the dense sets |
| Hazards | Earthquakes, active fires and weather alerts | Adds rain radar, lightning and fire perimeters |
| Looks | Every vision mode | Adds more HUD layouts |
The free plan also has the aircraft table, 5 live public camera views a day, share links and the events archive. Everything in each plan.
How is a live globe different from a 3D world map?
Most 3D world maps and globe apps show the Earth as photographs taken earlier: good for looking at places, but nothing on them moves. A live globe draws the things that are moving now on top of that picture, from public feeds. Planes are where their transponders said they were half a minute ago, ships where their AIS reports put them, and each earthquake appears within minutes of the U.S. Geological Survey reporting it. You can still look at places. You also see what is happening there.
Why use a globe rather than a flat map?
A flat map stretches the far north and south and splits the Pacific at its edges, so long routes look bent. On a globe, a flight from Los Angeles to Singapore or a ship crossing from Shanghai to Rotterdam follows its real path, and satellite orbits make sense. A globe also shows height: aircraft sit at their real altitude above the terrain, which a flat map can only print as a number.
Where does the live data come from?
Only from public feeds whose terms allow a commercial service. Each one is credited on screen and on our data sources page.
| Aircraft | ADS-B positions from volunteer receivers via ADSBHub and adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0), refreshed every 30 seconds. |
|---|---|
| Ships | AIS reports from coastal receivers via AISStream.io, refreshed every minute. Ships far out at sea go quiet. |
| Satellites | Orbital elements from CelesTrak, refreshed every six hours. Positions are worked out in your browser. |
| Earthquakes | The U.S. Geological Survey real-time feeds, read every minute. |
| Fires | Heat detections from NASA FIRMS satellites over the last 24 hours, and wildfires tracked by NASA's EONET and GDACS. |
| Weather | National Weather Service alerts every two minutes, satellite clouds and forecast winds. |
| Incidents | Disasters, conflict reports and advisories from open feeds. See the OSINT map for the full list. |
Questions people ask
Is the interactive 3D globe free?
The live map is free, with no account and no card. It shows live flights, ships, satellites, earthquakes and weather on a flat 2D map. The 3D globe and the photorealistic 3D cities come with Black Clearance, which costs $9.99 a month or $79 a year and can be canceled at any time.
Can I try the 3D globe before paying?
Sometimes. When a free 60-second 3D preview is available, you can watch a live flight land in 3D before deciding. The flat live map stays free whether or not you upgrade.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Gods Eyes runs in the web browser on phones, tablets and computers, with nothing to install. It needs a current browser with WebGL, which almost every phone made in the last few years has.
Can I see my own house on the globe?
You can fly to your street, and in 3D cities you see the buildings around it. The buildings and terrain were captured earlier, though. What moves is live: aircraft, ships, satellites, earthquakes and fires. There is no live camera looking down from space.
Is the globe live or a recording?
Live. Aircraft refresh every 30 seconds, ships every minute and earthquakes every minute, and satellites move continuously along their orbits. The counts on this page show the time they were read.
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Last reviewed . Corrections: support@godseyes.io.
Live data can be late, incomplete or wrong. Not for navigation or safety decisions.
Flight positions: ADS-B and MLAT from the volunteer receivers of adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0) · Satellite orbits: CelesTrak · Earthquakes: data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey · Weather alerts: NOAA/NWS (U.S. public domain) · Map and place names: Natural Earth (public domain) · Ship positions: AIS reports from terrestrial receivers via AISStream.io · Active fires: NASA FIRMS, part of NASA EOSDIS. All data sources.