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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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S71-58222 (31 July-2 Aug. 1971) --- During the lunar eclipse that occurred during the Apollo 15 lunar landing...
Surface features are visible on Saturn's moon Prometheus in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Most of...
Looking beyond Saturn's south pole, this was the Cassini spacecraft's view of the distant, icy moon Enceladus on...
iss073e0002997 (4/28/2025) --- A view of the Colloidal Solids investigation inside the Microgravity Sciences...
ISS030-E-075182 (4 Feb. 2012) --- This nighttime view of Earth's horizon and scattered city lights was photographed...
The Mastcam-Z cameras are on a workbench during their assembly at Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. A square...
Milky way - The real shape of our galaxy is revealed in this infrared image obtained by IRAS. Infrared light...
A spectrally resolved Rayleigh/Mie scattering diagnostic was developed to measure temperature and wing span wise...
STS073-725-031 (24 October 1995) --- The contrasting colors of fall in New England are captured on this...
jsc2024e065172 (10/3/2024) --- A temperature map is seen within a microgel suspension illuminated by the Colloidal...
The night sides of Saturn and Tethys are dark places indeed. We know that shadows are darker areas than sunlit...
Viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at 11:25 p.m. EST, the full moon, traveling west to east, is nearly completely in...
This very steep (more than 60 degrees) scarp shows mass wasting activity every year in the early northern spring,...
ISS029-E-031157 (15 Oct. 2011) --- One of the Expedition 29 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
Traveling west to east, the full moon, viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at 10:18 p.m. EST, begins moving into the...
Traveling west to east, the full moon, viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at 10:35 p.m. EST, moves into the Earth's...
Viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at 10:59 p.m. EST, the full moon, traveling west to east, is three-quarters of the...
ISS029-E-031143 (15 Oct. 2011) --- One of the Expedition 29 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
The cameras of Voyager 1 on Feb. 14, 1990, pointed back toward the sun and took a series of pictures of the sun and...
X-rays diffracted from a well-ordered protein crystal create sharp patterns of scattered light on film. A computer...
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft obtained this ultraviolet image of hydrogen...
A montage of Cassini images, taken in four different regions of the spectrum from ultraviolet to near-infrared,...
ISS027-E-012224 (12 April 2011) --- Sunset over western South America is featured in this image photographed by an...
NASA acquired November 24, 2011 From its vantage 824 kilometers (512 miles) above Earth, the Visible Infrared Imager...