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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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This recent image of Titan reveals more complex patterns of bright and dark regions on the surface, including a...
STS003-10-613 (22-30 March 1982) --- A truly remarkable view of White Sands and the nearby Carrizozo Lava Beds in...
Agricultural patterns are distinctly visible in this near-vertical false color infrared photography taken in...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's research vessel Knorr is seen docked on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, in Woods...
Fog is the only source of moisture for desert dwelling animals and plants living in the Namib Desert sand dune...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's research vessel Knorr is seen docked on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, in Woods...
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity continues to cut southward across a plain marked by large sand ripples and...
A crated National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA-L) satellite is moved inside the B16-10 spacecraft...
jsc2021e063280 (12/10/2021) --- Preflight imagery for the Characterizing Antibiotic Resistance in Microgravity...
STS059-306-034 (9-20 April 1994) --- The radiating transportation pattern of this 20th-Century urban plan is nicely...
As one of the best ever views of the city of New Orleans, LA (30.0N, 90.0W) from space, this image allows the study...
This image shows material almost completely filling an impact crater to the northeast of Hale Crater, perhaps...
The Equiaxed Dendritic Solidification Experiment (EDSE) is a material sciences investigation under the Formation of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A view of the super moon in the eastern sky over Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The full...
41G-36-036 (5-13 Oct 1984) --- The deeply etched patterns of intermittent streams in the Hadhramaut Plateau of south...
Today's VIS image shows part of a central pit crater located in Hesperia Planum. The dark patterns on the floor of...
El Niño is an irregularly recurring climate pattern characterized by warmer than usual ocean temperatures in the...
SL2-05-389 (22 June 1973) --- This scene displays the southeastern part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and adjacent...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's research vessel Knorr is seen docked on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, in Woods...
S66-00933 (28 Jan. 1966) --- Gemini-11 Experiment D-16 Knee Tether, sponsored by the Department of Defense and the...
S62-06021 (20 Feb. 1962) --- A view of clouds over the Indian Ocean as photographed by astronaut John H. Glenn Jr....
This photo shows two small drawings inscribed inside the front left wheel of the Mars Perseverance rover, pictured...
STS-42 Earth observation taken aboard Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, is of New York City (NYC), New York...
NASA airborne scientists talk about their findings from the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel, or HS3 airborne...