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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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Long-time NASA Dryden research pilot and former astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton capped an almost 50-year flying...
This is an artist's impression of how the very early universe (less than one billion years old) might have looked...
Long-time NASA Dryden research pilot and former astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton capped an almost 50-year flying...
Long-time NASA Dryden research pilot and former astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton capped an almost 50-year flying...
This look ahead from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes four geological layers to be examined by the mission, and...
Long-time NASA Dryden research pilot and former astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton capped an almost 50-year flying...
Long-time NASA Dryden research pilot and former astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton capped an almost 50-year flying...
Release Date: July 10, 2003 A rich starry sky fills the view from an ancient gas-giant planet in the core of the...
A portion of the central zone of the large impact structure Valhalla on Jupiter's moon Callisto was imaged by the...
A large tabular iceberg (42 kilometers x 17 kilometers) broke off Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica (75ºS...
Technicians set up test hardware inside the test section of the Icing Research Tunnel at the National Aeronautics...
A group of Coast Guard seamen leave their ship to verify ice formations on the Great Lakes as part of an joint...
During its close flyby of Jupiter on August 27, 2016, the Waves instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft received radio...
This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the...
This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows two scales of ripples, plus other...
Image release June 22, 2010 A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image — one of the largest ever...
NASA image captured January 4, 2012 Most of us prefer our winter roads free of ice, but one kind of road depends on...
At the center of this amazing Hubble image is the elliptical galaxy NGC 3610. Surrounding the galaxy are a wealth of...
Thousands of galaxies flood this near-infrared image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. High-resolution imaging from...
A Consolidated B-25M Liberator modified for icing research by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)...
ISS031-E-116058 (13 June 2012) --- Polar mesospheric clouds in the Northern Hemisphere are featured in this image...
In this dramatic scene, an unnamed crater in Mercury's northern volcanic plains is bathed in darkness as the sun...
ISS034-E-024622 (5 Jan. 2013) --- Polar mesospheric clouds over the South Pacific Ocean are featured in this image...
A National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) researcher measures the ice thickness on a landing antenna...