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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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ISS040-E-067869 (16 July 2014) --- NASA astronaut Steve Swanson (left), Expedition 40 commander; and European Space...
ISS040-E-067864 (16 July 2014) --- NASA astronaut Steve Swanson (left), Expedition 40 commander; and European Space...
An unpiloted SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station July 27,2019 days after its...
Loaded with food, fuel, and supplies, the unpiloted Northrop Grumman CRS-21 Cygnus cargo craft arrived to the...
Image release June 22, 2010 A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image — one of the largest ever...
Within that narrow window during a solar eclipse where one on Earth can watch the Moon shadow obscure more than 90%...
iss050e015683 (Dec. 13, 2016) --- JAXA's (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) H-II Transfer Vehicle-6, also known as...
NASA image captured June 5, 2012. On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of one of the rarest predictable solar...
NASA image captured June 5, 2012. On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of one of the rarest predictable solar...
Now that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has moved to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, a special...
At 19:36 UTC (3:36 p.m. EDT) on June 26, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard...
The descent of its comet lander Philae was captured by ESA Rosetta spacecraft main camera as the lander approached...
The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. The first peaked at 4:02 a.m. EDT on April 2,...
iss065e238816 (Aug. 12, 2021) --- Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter, carrying over 8,200 pounds of cargo to...
A long, brown oval known as a "brown barge" in Jupiter's North North Equatorial Belt is captured in this...
New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope is revealing details never before seen on Jupiter. Hubble’s new Jupiter...
New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope is revealing details never before seen on Jupiter. Hubble’s new Jupiter...
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Japan one hour and 41 minutes before the quake hit. At the time Aqua passed...
This illustration shows the proposed Capture, Containment, and Return System, a NASA payload on the European Space...
NASA’s InSight lander detected seismic waves from a meteoroid and was able to capture the sound of the space rock...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Phobos, one of the two Martian...
NASA Terra spacecraft captures a clear sky image of the region of the recent Haiti earthquake.
As MESSENGER passes progressively closer to Mercury, we see ever more resolved features in the images the spacecraft...
This view of Jupiter was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's 62nd...