Photo and data credits

Last updated: 9 November 2026

Every photo on the site is from Wikimedia Commons, in the public domain or under CC0; the flight data and the basemap have their own terms, below.

Photos

Each photo, with the name of its author and its licence, in the order the site uses them:

GPS III satellite, U.S. Air Force (Public domain)
Earth at night, with city lights and the aurora, from the International Space Station, NASA (Public domain)
A Tomahawk missile launched from USS Cape St. George, U.S. Navy, Kenneth Moll (Public domain)
Airliner wing above the clouds, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Public domain)
Airbus cockpit at night, Andrew McMillan (Public domain)
South-east Europe at night from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
Radar domes, U.S. Navy, Preston Keres (Public domain)
Container ship at sea, Martin Dörsch (CC0)
Embraer 190 wing, Raysonho (CC0)
A fighter jet on a carrier deck at sunset, U.S. Navy, Seaman Tyler Crowley (Public domain)
A contrail over a telecommunications mast at sunset, W.carter (CC0)
Night traffic drawn into streaks of light, Caleb George (CC0)
Aurora australis seen from the International Space Station, NASA (Public domain)
An F-35 over Finland during a NATO air exercise, U.S. Air Force, Senior Airman Christopher Campbell (Public domain)
A glass cockpit with its navigation display, U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Vincent De Groot (Public domain)
An MC-130J flying low through the Pyrenees, U.S. Air Force, 1st Lt. Kaitlyn Danner (Public domain)
GPS III launch, U.S. Space Force, Gwendolyn Kurzen (Public domain)
GPS III Space Vehicle 10 being loaded aboard a C-17, U.S. Space Force, Staff Sgt. Amanda Flower (Public domain)
Southern Baltic Sea coastlines from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
City lights of northern Europe from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
Ukraine and western Russia at night from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
Europe at night from orbit, NASA (Public domain)
The Black Sea from the International Space Station, NASA (Public domain)
The eastern Mediterranean, Nile delta and Levant from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
The Nile delta, Sinai and eastern Mediterranean from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
The Persian Gulf from the International Space Station, NASA (Public domain)
The Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman at night from the International Space Station, NASA (Public domain)
The Korean Peninsula at night from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
Thunderstorms over the South China Sea from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
New York City at night from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
Africa and Europe from a million miles away, NASA (Public domain)
Southeast Asia from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
Italy at night from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
The Balkans from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
The coast of Western Australia from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)
A United Airlines Boeing 737 departing Los Angeles International Airport, Tim (CC0)
The Capitan Mountains in New Mexico, Patrick Alexander (CC0)
U.S. Navy ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Navy, Alex R. Forster (Public domain)
A U.S. Navy E-2 Hawkeye above San Clemente Island, California, U.S. Navy, PH3 Graves (Public domain)
The Port of Long Beach, California, from the air, Northwalker (CC0)
Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, PDXDUS (CC0)
F-35 jets at Ämari Air Base, Estonia, U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Megan M. Beatty (Public domain)
The United Arab Emirates and the Strait of Hormuz from the ISS, NASA (Public domain)

Data and map

Aircraft data comes from adsb.lol's globe history, shared by volunteers who run ADS-B receivers, under the Open Database License. Basemap © MapTiler © OpenStreetMap contributors. The method follows the one popularised by GPSJAM.