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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.
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.
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The extended-mission status of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the HiRISE camera has greatly increased our...
ISS033-E-019822 (9 Nov. 2012) --- An eruption plume from the Karymsky volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the...
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising...
Range : 1.7 million miles This photo of Venus was taken by the Galileo spacecraft's Solid State Imaging System. A...
AS14-68-9405 (6 Feb. 1971) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., Apollo 14 commander, assembles a double core tube as...
This VIS image is located in the northern portion of Hephaestus Fossae. Hephaestus Fossae is a complex channel...
ISS030-E-062540 (2 Feb. 2012) --- This nighttime image, photographed by one of the members of the Expedition 30 crew...
Today's VIS image is shows a small portion of Tempe Fossae. The linear features are tectonic graben. Graben are...
The soil surface on Mars is believed to contain water ice, especially at higher latitudes. Similar to permafrost...
This STS-80 onboard photograph shows the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle...
Today's VIS image shows a small portion of both Dao Vallis (middle of image) and Niger Vallis (bottom of image)....
AS16-108-17622 (22 April 1972) --- Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission,...
AS17-137-20990 (12 Dec. 1972) --- A view of the area at Station 4 (Shorty Crater) showing the now highly-publicized...
AS12-46-6790 (19 Nov. 1969) --- Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, is photographed at quadrant II of the...
This VIS image is located in the northern portion of Hephaestus Fossae. Hephaestus Fossae is a complex channel...
AS17-145-22165 (12 Dec. 1972) --- Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, with his adjustable...
This image shows the dissected interior of a crater in the Cydonia region of Mars. The flat-topped buttes and mesas...
AS11-40-5948 (20 July 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo...
The moon bound Apollo 14, carrying a crew of three astronauts: Mission commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., Command Module...
AS17-140-21438 (7-19 Dec. 1972) --- This 70mm frame features a close-up view of a large multi-cracked boulder...
This is the Apollo 14 mission insignia or logo. The Apollo 14, carrying a crew of three astronauts: Stuart A. Roosa,...
S74-23458 (19 Dec. 1973) --- This photograph of the sun, taken on Dec. 19, 1973, during the third and final manned...
This image of the nearby edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 55 was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer on September 14, 2003,...
This crater is located in Acidalia Planitia. It is situated in a sparsely cratered area of elongated mounds and...