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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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Modern rocket. Retro logo. Same mission. The Worm is back. And just in time to mark the return of human spaceflight...
Engineers check cables on back of Aquarius instrument in the clean room at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
In this navigation camera raw image, NASA's Opportunity Rover looks back over its own tracks on Aug. 4, 2010....
Again and again, NEAR Shoemaker's imager is being directed at the "saddle region" of Eros, to observe this feature...
This stereo anaglyph shows the parachute and back shell that helped guide NASA Curiosity to the surface of Mars. You...
The Worm is Back
This image shows the view from NASA Deep Impact flyby spacecraft as it turned back to look at comet Tempel 1. Fifty...
art001e002202 (Dec. 8, 2022) On flight day 23 of NASA’s Artemis I mission, Orion’s solar array wing camera looked...
EXPLODING WIRE GUN, BLDG 4205, WITH BACKING BLOCK, BARREL, COPPER RIBBON WITH WIRE
Samples of an asteroid are headed back to Earth, a key prelaunch milestone for the Webb space telescope, and adding...
This image, taken Jan. 26, 2012, shows the back shell of NASA Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft after its second...
In this photo, the back shell of NASA's InSight spacecraft is being lowered onto the mission's lander, which is...
Local area girl scouts competed in a "Girl Scouts to the Moon and Back" essay contest. The essay contest gave the...
A "backdoor cold front" is bringing April temperatures to the U.S. northeast and Mid-Atlantic today, May...
Mobile Launcher rolls back to VAB after integration testing.
In this image from Oct. 26, 2019 — the 325th Martian day, or sol, of the mission — InSight's heat probe, or "mole,"...
A camera in the window of NASA's Orion spacecraft looks back at Earth during its unpiloted flight test in orbit on...
This image was taken by Opportunity front hazard-avoidance camera after the Sol 3309 drive, looking back at the...
At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the back shell powered descent...
At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the back shell powered descent...
Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics Flight 1....
Inside the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks on March 17, 2022, the 381st Martian day, or sol, of...
Drone shot of the Mobile Launcher roll back to the VAB.