STARXIS
00 / OUR POINT OF ORIGINSOL III — EARTH
A SMALL WORLD.
EVERYTHING WE KNOW.

EVERY HORIZON BEGINS HERE.

OUR HOME.
OUR HORIZON.

One world gave us everything.
What we build beyond it begins here.

LOOK CLOSER
NASA OBSERVATIONS / DAYLIGHT
CONCEIVED IN WEST VIRGINIA
LOOKING BEYOND EARTH
DRAG TO ORBIT · ARROW KEYS TO ROTATEILLUSTRATIVE VIEW
TIME COMPRESSED
01 / A LIVING WORLDTHE BLUE PLANET

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED.

Ocean.
Atmosphere.
Possibility.

Earth’s water, air, and solid ground form a connected system. This is the world that makes every other ambition possible.

71%

of Earth’s surface is covered by ocean. A world that looks like land from the ground becomes a water planet from orbit.

NASA / EARTH FACTS ↗
THE VIEW CHANGES.
THE WORLD IS THE SAME.
Earth’s atmosphere and curved horizon photographed from orbit
02 / A CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVEPHOTOGRAPHED FROM ORBIT

LOOK BACK BEFORE LOOKING FORWARD.

All of us.
Under one sky.

The further we see, the more extraordinary home becomes. The ambition to go beyond Earth starts with an appreciation for everything here.

REAL ORBITAL PHOTOGRAPHY / NASAOUR ORIGIN. ALWAYS.
03 / THE FIRST CROSSINGEARTH → MOON

Near is
a relative thing.

The Moon is our closest destination.
Even that first step asks us to think at a different scale.

DISTANCE FROM EARTH’S CENTRE6,378 KM

At Earth’s equatorial surface.

MEAN EARTH–MOON DISTANCE384,400 km
ONE-WAY LIGHT TIME AT THIS DISTANCE0.021 seconds

Distance is measured from Earth’s centre. The Moon’s distance varies through its orbit. Markers are enlarged for readability; light time = distance ÷ 299,792 km/s.

NASA / EARTH & MOON ↗ NASA / ORBITAL DISTANCES ↗
STARXIS / DESTINATIONS

WEST VIRGINIA → BEYOND

THE WORLD BEHIND THE EXPERIENCE

A real world.
A different perspective.

Earth’s globe uses NASA observation-derived day and night maps. These are composites, not live imagery. The orbit photograph comes from NASA’s astronaut photography archive.

The globe’s lighting, atmosphere, rotation and camera motion are an illustrative presentation, not a live orbital reconstruction. The distance explorer uses mean lunar distance and centre-to-centre measurements.

All photographic imagery comes from documented sources. No AI-generated images are used. The optional music is synthesized in your browser.