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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a transporter moves the thermal vacuum fixture into the...
To give some sense of the immense scale of cyclones arranged in a hexagonal pattern at Jupiter's south pole, an...
Astronaut Scott Altman speaks, Wednesday evening, Sept. 9, 2009, during a celebration of the Hubble Legacy at the...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander prepares for a launch to the...
Ron Mueller, a Launch Services Program mission manager, explains the science goals of NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the...
Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and P.I. at NASA Ames Research Center - Total Luminance...
At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a worker attaches a camera to the second stage of the Delta II...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle stands ready to launch NASA’s Swift...
Scientist-Astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, Skylab 2 science pilot, is photographed strapped into the sleep restraint in...
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the White Room on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-125...
A 3 mm drop of nickel-zirconium, heated to incandescence, hovers between electrically charged plates inside the...
Scott Altman, who commanded the STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, far left on stage, speaks during a...
This archival photo shows the Voyager proof test model, which did not fly in space, in the 25-foot space simulator...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander prepares for a launch to the...
Crew chief Darin Whittington and mechanic Edwin Flores watch as mechanic Francisco Rodriguez works on a mounting...
Mechanic Francisco Rodriguez and crew chief Darin Whittington installed the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging...
NASA image acquired: March 29, 2011 This is the first image of Mercury taken from orbit with MESSENGER’s Narrow...
nside the world's largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked...
The 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter is safely placed on a workstand in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility...
The 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter comes to rest on a workstand in the Spacecraft Assembly & Encapsulation Facility -2....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, a worker stands by as the Rack Insertion...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis moves through the open door of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's...
In the Spacecraft Assembly & Encapsulation Facility -2, workers help guide the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter to a...