Explore NASA's vast collection of space images, videos, and audio from missions past and present.
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.
The library includes imagery from diverse sources: telescopes like Hubble and Webb that capture deep-space nebulae, galaxies, and exoplanets; planetary missions like the Mars rovers ( browse Mars photos) and Cassini at Saturn; Earth observation satellites ( see EPIC imagery); astronaut photography from the ISS; and documentation of rocket launches, spacecraft assembly, and ground testing. Most NASA images are in the public domain and free to download at full resolution for educational, editorial, and personal use.
Use the search bar above to find specific subjects — try queries like "Apollo 11," "Hubble Deep Field," "Mars surface," or "astronaut EVA." You can also filter by media type (image, video, or audio). For a daily curated experience, visit the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Showing results for "Desert"
1,041 results found - Page 13 of 44
iss064e015105 (Dec. 23, 2020) --- This photograph from the International Space Station shows a portion of the...
iss070e030577 (Nov. 18, 2023) --- Sand dunes and massifs in the Algerian Desert are pictured from the International...
iss064e020109 (Jan. 5, 2021) --- This view from a window on the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle docked to the...
iss067e141205 (June 19, 2022) --- This portion of the Western Desert is an area of the Sahara where the borders of...
iss069e086680 (Sept. 12, 2023) --- Windblown sand drifts across the Namib desert on the African continent and into...
The X-38 Crew Return Vehicle descends under its steerable parafoil over the California desert during its first free...
iss064e002057 (Oct. 28, 2020) --- The Earth's limb, or horizon, with the Sonoran Desert below, is pictured as the...
iss070e097662 (Feb. 20, 2024) --- Riyadh, the capital and largest city in the desert nation of Saudi Arabia, is...
iss066e144020 (Feb. 15, 2022) --- The hot and arid desert geography of Semnan Province southeast of Tehran, Iran, is...
ISS043E182407 (05/08/2015) --- Shades of beige dominate this image of the Libyan Desert and southwestern Egypt scene...
iss064e006308 (Nov. 26, 2020) --- Surrounded by the Nefud Desert, the city of Jubba, Saudi Arabia, with its abundant...
iss066e137392 (Feb. 7, 2022) --- A portion of the Sahara Desert in Algeria, with sand dunes, rocky platforms and...
iss064e021949 (Jan. 9, 2021) --- Riyadh, the desert city and capital of Saudi Arabia, with a population of 7.6...
ISS008-E-16328 (15 February 2004) --- A major dust storm in the Kerman Desert, just east of the city of Bam in...
The X-36 technology demonstrator shows off its distinctive shape as the remotely piloted aircraft flies a research...
iss065e009521 (April 29, 2021) --- Mount Arkanu in southeast Libya, near the border with Egypt and Sudan, is...
iss064e011532 (Dec. 9, 2020) --- A portion of the Sahara Desert in central western Algeria is pictured from the...
iss072e095217 (Oct. 20, 2024) --- The Niger River flows through the African nation of Mali near the Sahara Desert in...
iss064e011821 (Dec. 11, 2020) --- The hot desert climate of Illizi, Algeria, and Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, is...
iss071e041652 (April 25, 2024) --- India's Gulf of Kutch (top left) and the Rann of Kutch (bottom right), an area of...
iss073e0379768 (July 20, 2025) --- Colombia's La Guajira Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea, with its desert region and...
iss055e020443 (April 10, 2018) --- The southwest portion of the city of Riyadh and a body of water were pictured as...
iss062e061341 (Feb. 27, 2020) --- The near-circular massifs of the Aïr Mountains within the Sahara Desert were...
iss074e0504295 (April 13, 2026) --- Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft approaches the International Space...