Authenticity & provenance

Every print can prove where its Earth came from.

Enter your order number to open the record behind your print: the exact NASA or NOAA observation it was built from, every dataset involved, and each step of how it was made.

Your order number is on the insert card that shipped with your print, and at the top of your confirmation email.

01

The original record

See the precise satellite observation or weather analysis your Earth was built from, with the identifier and capture time, linked back to the public NASA or NOAA archive so you can open it yourself.

02

The making of it

Follow the real timestamps of your order through every stage: sources resolved, Earth rendered, finished by hand, print file produced, released to production.

03

The honest limits

Each print states plainly what it is and what it is not. Where an image is a reconstruction rather than a photograph, this page says so, in those words.

Three kinds of truth

Your date decides what is possible.

Earth has only been photographed continuously as a full disc since 2015. Further back, the record thins — and rather than pretend otherwise, every print declares exactly which kind of record it carries.

  1. 2015 → today

    A real photograph

    NASA’s DSCOVR spacecraft photographs the entire sunlit face of Earth from 1.5 million kilometres away, several times a day. For these dates your print carries a genuine photograph.

  2. 2002 → 2015

    Same-day satellite imagery

    No single camera saw the whole planet at once, but NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites photographed all of it across the day. Those real passes are assembled into one view.

  3. 1979 → 2002

    The recorded weather

    Daily global imagery does not exist this far back. NOAA’s six-hourly analysis of the atmosphere does, so the weather is placed from the real record and rendered with real cloud texture.

Read the full method