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NASA's Image and Video Library is one of the most comprehensive public archives of space imagery in the world, containing over 140,000 images, videos, and audio recordings spanning more than six decades of space exploration. From the earliest Mercury and Gemini missions through the Apollo Moon landings, the Space Shuttle era, and today's cutting-edge observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, this collection documents humanity's journey into the cosmos.
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View just before sunrise over the Arctic Ocean during IceBridge's transit flight from Fairbanks to Thule on Mar. 26,...
iss053e176255 (Nov. 14, 2017) --- The Orbital ATK Cygnus resupply ship with its cymbal-like UltraFlex solar arrays...
Sierra Nevada Corp’s Dream Chaser facing sunrise over Rogers Dry Lake by NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in...
iss053e176252 (Nov. 14, 2017) --- The Orbital ATK Cygnus resupply ship with its cymbal-like UltraFlex solar arrays...
iss067e189232 (July 16, 2022) --- The SpaceX Dragon space freighter, on its 25th Commercial Resupply Services...
iss053e176254 (Nov. 14, 2017) --- The Orbital ATK Cygnus resupply ship with its cymbal-like UltraFlex solar arrays...
iss063e098775 (Sept. 30, 2020) --- The tip of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, also called the Latching End Effector which...
This figure shows how the Alice instrument count rate changed over time during the sunset and sunrise observations....
Composite Pioneer 10 imagery Excitement rose as the PICS displayed images of Jupiter of ever-increasing size as...
Mercury shines at its brightest for the year, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks, and a bright new comet makes an...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Concluding mission STS-115, Atlantis and her crew return to Kennedy Space Center and...
Shown here at Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, in November, 2023, the six...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take a series of images of drifting clouds just...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Concluding mission STS-115, Atlantis and her crew return to Kennedy Space Center and...
This is the highest-resolution color departure shot of Pluto's receding crescent from NASA's New Horizons...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth for the last time on Runway 15 at NASA's Kennedy...
Waning crescent. Low to the east before sunrise. This marks the first time that accurate shadows at this level of...
Third quarter. Rises around midnight, visible to the south after sunrise. This marks the first time that accurate...
Waning gibbous. Rises after sunset, high in the sky after midnight, visible to the southwest after sunrise. This...
Full Moon. Rises at sunset, high in the sky around midnight. Visible all night. This marks the first time that...
Waxing crescent. Visible toward the southwest in early evening. This marks the first time that accurate shadows at...
New Moon. By the modern definition, New Moon occurs when the Moon and Sun are at the same geocentric ecliptic...
First quarter. Visible high in the southern sky in early evening. This marks the first time that accurate shadows at...
Waxing gibbous. Visible to the southeast in early evening, up for most of the night. This marks the first time that...