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World Today · 2026-10-01

Erfurt, Germany recorded 295 scans in 24 hours

24 hours to 02:50 UTC, rebuilt 2026-10-01 02:50 UTC · 295 scan uploads · 1 phones · 5 hexes · 36 earthquakes · 68 natural events
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Overview The phones measured five hexes in Erfurt, Germany. One phone uploaded 295 scans. The planet showed extensive snow cover and sea ice. Haze was thick over Pakistan and Indonesia. Earthquakes were frequent with 36 events today.

Where the phones measured A single phone in Erfurt, Germany contributed all data. It measured five hexes across six layers: magnetic, BLE, pressure, cellular, GNSS, and Wi‑Fi. The cellular layer recorded six hex touches. The network state was quiet with no new hexes discovered.

Sky and planet Snow cover spans 19,330,206 km², largest in Greenland (321,184 km²) and Antarctica (241,939 km²). Sea ice covers 11,870,829 km², biggest off Antarctica (268,261 km²). Haze optical depth averages 1.10 over Pakistan, making the Sun look dim, and 0.84 off Indonesia. Lights were brightest over China with 9.7 nW/(cm²·sr), comparable to city lights. Aurora chance is 16 % off Antarctica, a small chance. Space weather is quiet with Kp 0.67, and the strongest quake was M5.6 near Tamarindo, Costa Rica. There are 49 wildfires, including Rafter 4B in Texas, and eight severe storms such as Hurricane Rachel off Mexico. Icebergs like D33C drift off Antarctica are tracked.

Tomorrow, from the history Tomorrow scan uploads are forecast about 844, between 549 and 1140, based on seven days of history. Hexes measured are forecast about 25, between 16 and 33, also from historical trends. Both numbers are expected to rise compared to today’s 295 uploads and five hexes measured.

Worth opening today

3 things the day's numbers point at.
Wildfire Rafter 4B, Schleicher, Texas (United States of America)
Hurricane Rachel (off the coast of Mexico)
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.
295
scan uploads
1
phones mining
5
hexes measured
0
measured for the first time ever
1
places
7
countries this week
3,283
hexes in the atlas, all time
27
countries, all time
36
earthquakes 2.5+, strongest M5.6
68
natural events NASA tracks
0.7
Kp now, quiet; peak 1.3
16%
best aurora chance on Earth
0
speed tests
16,612
active satellites in the catalogue
19M
km² of snow the satellite saw
12M
km² of sea ice
not measured
today
average sea surface, whole ocean
0.08
average haze where measured
49
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 2026-09-30
23 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 uploads295-72% vs 7 days
phones mining1-81% vs 7 days
hexes measured5-85% vs 7 days
new hexes0-100% vs 7 days
earthquakes 2.5+36-14% vs 7 days
natural events tracked68-10% vs 7 days
peak Kp1.33-56% vs 7 days
speed tests0-100% vs 7 days
snow-covered km² record19330206+15% vs 7 days
sea ice km²11870829-29% vs 7 days
wildfires tracked49-13% vs 7 days
severe storms tracked8+6% vs 7 days
Tomorrow, scan uploadsabout 844549 to 1,140
Tomorrow, hexes measuredabout 2516 to 33
Tomorrow, new hexesabout 117 to 15
Tomorrow, earthquakes 2.5+about 4328 to 58

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.