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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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This animation is a playback of data recorded by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover during an autonomous drive on July...
Astronaut James Lovell at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted Space-Flight...
This map shows the route on lower Mount Sharp that NASA's Curiosity followed in April and early May 2015, in the...
This time-lapse video, which has been sped up by 24 times, uses an engineering model of one of the instruments...
These images represent radar observations of asteroid 99942 Apophis on March 8, 9, and 10, 2021, as it made its last...
This sequence of enhanced-color images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA's Juno spacecraft as...
Astronaut James Lovell at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted Space-Flight...
Astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted...
This composite NASA Hubble Space Telescope Image captures the positions of comet Siding Spring and Mars in a...
This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that will be imaged by Cassini during the spacecraft's close...
This video from NASA's Perseverance rover shows increasingly close views of an abraded rock at "Wildcat Ridge" in...
Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the...
Astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted...
Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the...
Astronaut Frank Borman at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted Space-Flight...
This montage of 10 JunoCam images shows Jupiter growing and shrinking in apparent size before and after NASA's Juno...
This pair of images from NASA's Perseverance shows close-up views of two rock types the rover investigated in the...
On May 18, 2022, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used an artificial intelligence software called Autonomous...
Three months before its scheduled arrival at Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has observed two storms in the act of...
This close-up view of a rock target named "Dourbes" was provided by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for...
New Delhi, India's capital city, is currently suffering though a period of particularly poor air quality. In early...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its abrasion tool to grind down the rock surface at this target, nicknamed...
As of mid-November, ISON is officially upon us. Using Hubble, we've taken our closest look yet at the innermost...
Date: 19 Nov 2013 Comet ISON shows off its tail in this three-minute exposure taken on 19 Nov. 2013 at 6:10 a.m....