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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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Artist rendering of NASA ISS-RapidScat instrument inset, which will launch to the International Space Station in...
NASA Deep Space 1 flew by comet Borrelly on September 22, 2001 and took these measurements with its plasma...
The Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons DAN instrument on NASA Mars rover Curiosity took measurement on a rock outcrop Spot...
This image shows atmospheric water vapor in Earth upper troposphere, about 10 kilometers 6 miles above the surface,...
This graphic depicts the Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter measuring the...
A National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) researcher measures the ice thickness on a landing antenna...
ICESat-2 will provide scientists with height measurements that create a global portrait of Earth’s third dimension,...
ICESat-2 will provide scientists with height measurements that create a global portrait of Earth’s third dimension,...
NASA's SMAP radiometer instrument measured Hurricane Matthew's wind speeds at 4:52 a.m. PDT (7:52 a.m. EDT) at up to...
S65-58941 (27 Aug. 1965) --- U.S. Air Force Weapons Laboratory D-8 (Radiation in Space) experiment for Gemini-6...
The data captured here is one of the outputs of a September 2023 test conducted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
This visualization shows sea surface height measurements in the Gulf Stream off the coast of North Carolina and...
A virtual tour of the JSC Measurement Standards and Calibration Laboratory (MSCL) that is responsible for the...
The HIWRAP is the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler, a "conically scanning" Doppler radar,...
This image shows the temperature of the martian surface measured by the Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission...
The Meteorological Measurement System, or MMS instrument measures the data of wind and temperatures in real-time...
ICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology To measure ice heights,...
Beaufort Sea surface temperatures where Canada Mackenzie River discharges into the Arctic Ocean, measured by NASA...
ICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology To measure ice heights,...
ICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology To measure ice heights,...
ICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology To measure ice heights,...
ICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology To measure ice heights,...
Flying over the Brazilian Amazon with an instrument firing 300,000 laser pulses per second, NASA scientists have...
During Spring 2003, students, teachers, and scientists worked side-by-side, measuring the properties of aerosols...