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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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Restoration efforts are underway to the dunes at the north beaches at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this...
An unidentified researcher looks over the wiring connecting the Airbrorne Precipitation Radar (APR-2) during a...
This composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans was captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi...
Megan Cruz, NASA Communications at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, participates in a mission dress rehearsal on Monday,...
In July of 2005, a continent-sized cloud of hot air and dust originating from the Sahara Desert crossed the Atlantic...
ISS032-E-025597 (9 Sept. 2012) --- Partially obstructed by the HTV-3 (H-II Transfer Vehicle) of the Japan Aerospace...
Dr. Tom Mace, NASA DFRC Director of Airborne Sciences, and Walter Klein(far right), NASA DFRC Airborne Science...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Don Dankert, a biological scientist in the NASA...
The Global Hawk Whole Air Sampler, or GWAS instrument compresses samples of high-altitude air in canisters to...
An Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer aircraft carrying a Pegasus XL Rocket with eight NASA Cyclone Global Navigation...
ISS013-E-71351 (28 August 2006) --- The crewmembers aboard the International Space Station took this oblique picture...
VIP tour of NASA DFRC's DC-8 airborne laboratory during the AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica campaign given by Craig Dobson,...
An Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer touches down at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The...
NASA provided live coverage the launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-U...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis approaches the top of Launch Pad 39A after rolling from the Vehicle...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Don Dankert, a biological scientist in the NASA...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- University of Florida geologist, Pete Adams, discusses a six-month effort to restore the...
James Wood, chief engineer with the Launch Services Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, participates in a...
Lori Ulrich, deputy chief, Fleet and Systems Management Division with the Launch Services Program at NASA’s Kennedy...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Pad 39B, a worker checks the progress of one of the corner bolts of the...
The Cloud Physics Lidar, or CPL, is a remote sensing, laser-based instrument used to measure the cloud and aerosol...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - From Launch Pad 39B, Space Shuttle Atlantis begins rolling back to the Vehicle Assembly...
ISS041-E-011535 (16 Sept. 2014) --- Though having been upgraded from a tropical storm to a Category 2 hurricane, the...
A specially equipped Dryden Flight Research Center ER-2 (a modified U-2) soars above Patrick Air Force Base enroute...