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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 visualization shows sea surface height measurements in the Gulf Stream off the coast of North Carolina and...
This Saturn equinox, captured here in a mosaic of light and dark, is the first witnessed up close by an emissary...
Natural color view of Ganymede from NASA Galileo spacecraft during its first encounter with the satellite. The dark...
This compilation shows the constellation Hercules, as imaged on May 21 and 22, 2003, by NASA Galaxy Evolution...
This image was taken May 21 and 22, 2003, by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data gathered...
This artist concept shows how NASA Spitzer Space Telescope was able to detect a super Earth direct light for the...
ESA Herschel Space Observatory first spotted the colliding duo in images taken with longer-wavelength infrared light...
The magnetic field of our Milky Way galaxy as seen by ESA Planck satellite. This image was compiled from the first...
This image was taken on May 21 and 22, 2003, by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data...
During its flyby of Mercury, on January 14, 2008 NASA MESSENGER spacecraft acquired the first high-resolution...
This image from NASA Phoenix Mars Lander of the Canadian-built meteorological station lidar, which was successfully...
This image shows one of the NASA detectors from the BICEP2 project, developed in collaboration with the NSF. The...
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer took this image on May 21 and 22, 2003. The image was made from data gathered by...
STS-133 Discovery Rollout - first motion to out of lights
STS-133 Discovery Rollout - first motion to out of lights
STS-133 Discovery Rollout - first motion to out of lights
STS-133 Discovery Rollout - first motion to out of lights
STS-133 Discovery Rollout - first motion to out of lights
This artist concept depicts 55 Cancri e as it orbits its star. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time,...
How many rings do you see in this new image of galaxy Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736? At first glance one might...
After passing Mercury the first time and making a trip around the Sun, NASA Mariner 10 again flew by Mercury on...
Flying over the Brazilian Amazon with an instrument firing 300,000 laser pulses per second, NASA scientists have...
The tiny red spot in this image is one of the most efficient star-making galaxies ever observed, converting gas into...
This image was taken May 21 and 22, 2003 by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data gathered by...