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World Today · 2026-09-30

Antwerp, Belgium saw four 5G speed tests averaging 121 Mbps

24 hours to 02:50 UTC, rebuilt 2026-09-30 02:50 UTC · 538 scan uploads · 4 phones · 10 hexes · 33 earthquakes · 70 natural events
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The story of the day

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Overview The phones measured ten hexes, five of them for the first time. They uploaded 538 scans from four phones. The network was quiet today. The planet showed extensive snow and sea ice. Natural events included many wildfires and several severe storms.

Where the phones measured Four phones contributed data from three places: Nice, France; Antwerp, Belgium; and Erfurt, Germany. Nice uploaded 461 scans covering five hexes. Antwerp contributed 50 scans over four hexes. Erfurt added 27 scans from one hex. Ten hexes were measured in total, five of them never before.

Sky and planet Snow covered about 17.7 million square kilometers, largest in Greenland, Antarctica and Russia. Sea ice covered about 15.0 million square kilometers, largest off Antarctica, Canada and Norway. Haze was thick over Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan, making the Sun look dim. The brightest night lights were off the coasts of Russia and Ireland, about 9.8 nW per square centimeter per steradian, comparable to city lights. Aurora chance was 16 percent off Antarctica, a small chance. Space weather was quiet with Kp 1.33. There were 33 earthquakes, the strongest M5.6 on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Fifty‑one wildfires and eight severe storms were tracked.

Tomorrow, from the history Tomorrow scan uploads are forecast about 897, between 583 and 1211, based on the history of previous days. Hexes measured are forecast about 28, between 18 and 38, also from historical trends. Both numbers come from the 7‑day history and are not direct measurements.

Worth opening today

3 things the day's numbers point at.
Antwerp, Belgium speed tests
Haze over Indonesia
Aurora chance off Antarctica

The numbers

Last 24 hours unless marked. Counts, never identities: no phone, person or device is ever named.
538
scan uploads
4
phones mining
10
hexes measured
5
measured for the first time ever
3
places
7
countries this week
3,283
hexes in the atlas, all time
27
countries, all time
33
earthquakes 2.5+, strongest M5.6
70
natural events NASA tracks
1.3
Kp now, quiet; peak 2.0
16%
best aurora chance on Earth
4
speed tests, avg 121 Mbps down
16,613
active satellites in the catalogue
18M
km² of snow the satellite saw
15M
km² of sea ice
not measured
today
average sea surface, whole ocean
0.08
average haze where measured
51
wildfires tracked
8
severe storms tracked
0
volcanoes erupting
11
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 2026-09-29
22 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 uploads538-49% vs 7 days
phones mining4-18% vs 7 days
hexes measured10-71% vs 7 days
new hexes5-60% vs 7 days
earthquakes 2.5+33-22% vs 7 days
natural events tracked70-10% vs 7 days
peak Kp2-33% vs 7 days
speed tests4+300% vs 7 days
snow-covered km² record17681673+9% vs 7 days
sea ice km²14985104-13% vs 7 days
wildfires tracked51-14% vs 7 days
severe storms tracked8+14% vs 7 days
Tomorrow, scan uploadsabout 897583 to 1,211
Tomorrow, hexes measuredabout 2818 to 38
Tomorrow, new hexesabout 117 to 15
Tomorrow, earthquakes 2.5+about 4630 to 62

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.