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World Today · 2026-09-27

Erfurt, Germany recorded 413 uploads today

24 hours to 02:50 UTC, rebuilt 2026-09-27 02:50 UTC · 797 scan uploads · 4 phones · 13 hexes · 47 earthquakes · 73 natural events
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Overview The phones measured 13 hexes, including three never before measured. They uploaded 797 scans from four phones. The network was quiet overall. Satellite data showed extensive snow and sea ice. Haze was thick over Indonesia and Antarctica.

Where the phones measured Four phones contributed data from Erfurt, Antwerp, Flint and Cluj‑Napoca. They measured GNSS, BLE, magnetic, pressure, cellular and Wi‑Fi signals in 13 hexes. Three of those hexes were measured for the first time ever. A total of 797 scan uploads were recorded. The network activity was down 53% compared to the weekly average.

Sky and planet Snow covered 17,049,331 km², most in Greenland, Antarctica and Canada. Sea ice covered 16,851,758 km², largest off Antarctica, Russia and Greenland. Haze with optical depth up to 4.57 dimmed the Sun off Indonesia, and thick haze over Antarctica reached 5.00. The brightest night lights, about 9.8 nW/(cm² sr), were seen off Antarctica, New Zealand and over the open ocean. Aurora chance is 26 % over Antarctica, a fair chance. Space weather is quiet with Kp 2.7, and 47 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5+ were recorded, including a strongest M5.6 near Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

Tomorrow, from the history Tomorrow scan uploads are forecast about 1,186, between 771 and 1,602, showing an increase from today’s 797 according to the history. Hexes measured are forecast about 38, between 25 and 51, also higher than today’s 13. New hexes are forecast about 14, between 9 and 18, up from today’s 3. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5+ are forecast about 45, between 29 and 61, a slight drop from today’s 47. These numbers come from the history of previous days, not from a measurement.

Worth opening today

3 things the day's numbers point at.
Wildfire Merit Creek, Greene, Mississippi
Hurricane Nolo (off the coast of United States of America)
Iceberg D33C (off the coast of Antarctica)

The numbers

Last 24 hours unless marked. Counts, never identities: no phone, person or device is ever named.
797
scan uploads
4
phones mining
13
hexes measured
3
measured for the first time ever
4
places
6
countries this week
3,257
hexes in the atlas, all time
26
countries, all time
47
earthquakes 2.5+, strongest M5.6
73
natural events NASA tracks
2.7
Kp now, quiet; peak 4.0
26%
best aurora chance on Earth
0
speed tests
16,621
active satellites in the catalogue
17M
km² of snow the satellite saw
17M
km² of sea ice
not measured
today
average sea surface, whole ocean
0.09
average haze where measured
54
wildfires tracked
8
severe storms tracked
0
volcanoes erupting
11
floods, dust, ice and snow events

Everything reported, where

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The network
Events on the planet
Seen by the satellites, NASA day 2026-09-26
19 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 uploads797-53% vs 7 days
phones mining4-24% vs 7 days
hexes measured13-84% vs 7 days
new hexes3-95% vs 7 days
earthquakes 2.5+47+15% vs 7 days
natural events tracked73-17% vs 7 days
peak Kp4+45% vs 7 days
speed tests0-100% vs 7 days
snow-covered km² record17049331+13% vs 7 days
sea ice km²16851758-1% vs 7 days
wildfires tracked54-24% vs 7 days
severe storms tracked8+81% vs 7 days
Tomorrow, scan uploadsabout 1,186771 to 1,602
Tomorrow, hexes measuredabout 3825 to 51
Tomorrow, new hexesabout 149 to 18
Tomorrow, earthquakes 2.5+about 4529 to 61

Past days

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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.