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World Today · 2026-09-26

54 new hexes were measured for the first time

24 hours to 02:50 UTC, rebuilt 2026-09-26 02:50 UTC · 3,493 scan uploads · 6 phones · 97 hexes · 34 earthquakes · 76 natural events
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Overview Phones measured 97 hexes in total today. Six phones uploaded 3,493 scans. The network covered six places. The planet showed extensive snow and sea ice. Space weather stayed quiet with Kp 3.7.

Where the phones measured The phones scanned 97 hexes, of which 54 were never measured before. Six phones contributed from Antwerp, Erfurt, İstanbul, United States, Mountain View and Beyoğlu. The scans touched six layers: BLE, pressure, cellular, GNSS, magnetic and Wi‑Fi. The upload count rose 102% compared to the week. The phones also ran five speed tests with an average download of 17.3 Mbps.

Sky and planet Snow cover spans 16,640,611 km², largest in Greenland and Antarctica. Sea ice covers 18,937,055 km², biggest off Antarctica and Greenland. Haze is thick over Norway with optical depth up to 4.57, making the Sun look dim. The brightest night lights are off New Zealand, Cambodia and Australia at about 9.8 nW/(cm² sr). Aurora chance is 25 % over Antarctica. The strongest earthquake was magnitude 6.6 near Tadine, New Caledonia.

Tomorrow, from the history Tomorrow the forecast expects about 1,629 scan uploads, roughly half of today, based on the past seven days. It also predicts about 44 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5+, a slight rise from today, according to historical trends.

Worth opening today

3 things the day's numbers point at.
Antwerp, Belgium
Haze over Norway
Aurora chance over Antarctica

The numbers

Last 24 hours unless marked. Counts, never identities: no phone, person or device is ever named.
3,493
scan uploads
6
phones mining
97
hexes measured
54
measured for the first time ever
6
places
6
countries this week
3,255
hexes in the atlas, all time
26
countries, all time
34
earthquakes 2.5+, strongest M6.6
76
natural events NASA tracks
3.7
Kp now, quiet; peak 4.0
25%
best aurora chance on Earth
5
speed tests, avg 17.3 Mbps down
16,621
active satellites in the catalogue
17M
km² of snow the satellite saw
19M
km² of sea ice
not measured
today
average sea surface, whole ocean
0.08
average haze where measured
56
wildfires tracked
8
severe storms tracked
0
volcanoes erupting
12
floods, dust, ice and snow events

Everything reported, where

Every place, hex, earthquake and event of the day. Tap a chip to filter, then open any line on the 3D Earth or in the Explorer.
The network
Events on the planet
Seen by the satellites, NASA day 2026-09-25
18 days of history recorded so far. The forecast is the recent average nudged by the direction of travel, nothing more. Changes and records compare today against the days before it, never against a window that contains today.
scan uploads3493+102% vs 7 days
phones mining6+17% vs 7 days
hexes measured97-7% vs 7 days
new hexes54-40% vs 7 days
earthquakes 2.5+34-19% vs 7 days
natural events tracked76-17% vs 7 days
peak Kp4+55% vs 7 days
speed tests5+600% vs 7 days
snow-covered km² record16640611+13% vs 7 days
sea ice km² record18937055+12% vs 7 days
wildfires tracked56-26% vs 7 days
severe storms tracked record8+124% vs 7 days
Tomorrow, scan uploadsabout 1,6291,059 to 2,199
Tomorrow, hexes measuredabout 6945 to 93
Tomorrow, new hexesabout 4831 to 65
Tomorrow, earthquakes 2.5+about 4429 to 60

Past days

Seven days are kept as full reports. A compact row per day is kept forever for the trends.
Sources: Invisible Atlas's own aggregate measurements (counts per hex, never identities); NASA GIBS imagery and layers (public domain, credit requested); NOAA SWPC Kp index and OVATION aurora; USGS earthquakes; NASA EONET events; CelesTrak catalogue (Dr. T.S. Kelso). The narrative is written by an AI model from the numbers on this page and nothing else, through Groq, OpenRouter or 1min.ai; when none answers, a plain template is shown and labelled. Forecasts are computed from the recorded history and are not measurements. Place search uses Photon by komoot in your browser. Privacy.