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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.
Use the search bar above to find specific subjects — try queries like "Apollo 11," "Hubble Deep Field," "Mars surface," or "astronaut EVA." You can also filter by media type (image, video, or audio). For a daily curated experience, visit the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture Mercury – seen as a tiny speck – passing in...
A team of specialists in a field known as planetary protection has been working to keep NASA’s Europa Clipper...
This close-up image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter gives the impression of looking like bacterial cells and...
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this panorama of a location nicknamed...
Animations for media and public use. These animation sequences show NASA’s Lunar Flashlight SmallSat deploying in...
After the zoomable dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance rover captured the third flight of the...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a close-up taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard...
These abrasion targets, nicknamed "Guilliamus" (left) and "Bellegarde" (right), are from the first and second rocks...
The white speck is NASA's Perseverance rover in the "South Séítah" area of Mars' Jezero Crater. The image was taken...
Provided by the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance orbiter, this overhead...
Superimposed on an image taken by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this map shows the...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here at the end of its fourth flight, on April 30, 2021. This enhanced...
This Mastcam-Z image shows Perseverance's drill with no cored-rock sample evident in the sample tube. The image was...
This annotated-composite graphic shows the entry of NASA's Perseverance rover into the "South Séítah" geologic unit...
This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars...
This image shows two possible routes (blue and purple) to the fan-shaped deposit of sediments known as a delta for...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of "Santa Cruz," a hill...
This image taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 20, 2022, shows that the...
NASA has named the landing site of the agency's Perseverance rover "Octavia E. Butler Landing," after the science...
This map shows the location of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 10, 2024, the 1,354th Martian day, or sol,...
How was NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft packed and shipped from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern...
The route (shown in blue) that the agency's Perseverance Mars rover is expected to take as it climbs up the western...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic of a location nicknamed "Castell Henllys" using its Mastcam-Z...
This enhanced-color image of Mars' Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance...