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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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This perspective view shows the northern coastal plain of Costa Rica with the Cordillera Central, composed of a...
Observations from NASA Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, or CIBER, have shown a surprising surplus of infrared...
This perspective view taken in February 2000 from NASA Landsat and SRTM shows the Caribbean coastal plain of Costa...
Saturn tiny moon Atlas, just to the left of the center of the image, appears almost indistinguishable from the...
NASA Cassini spacecraft looks over cratered and tectonically deformed terrain on Saturn moon Enceladus as the camera...
A close up of NASA Sojourner as it placed its Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer APXS upon the surface of the rock...
A composite image from a camera on ESA Rosetta mission Philae comet lander shows a solar array, with comet...
This is an image of Io, taken by NASA Galileo spacecraft during the G2 encounter in September 1996. This is a...
A nighttime shot shows some of the antennas of the Owens Valley Long Wavelength Array in California, with the center...
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, ISS Expedition 48-49 prime crewmembers Takuya Onishi...
NASA SIR-C/X-SAR is shown here in the payload bay of the orbiting space shuttle Endeavour STS-59, with an area of...
ESA Planck mission has imaged the oldest light in our universe. The top map shows Planck all-sky map of the cosmic...
A bright spoke extends across the unilluminated side of Saturn B ring about the same distance as that from London to...
AM 0500-620 consists of a highly symmetric spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on and partially backlit by a background...
New detailed radio data from the NRAO Jansky Very Large Array VLA revealed that the large perpendicular extension of...
Saturn moon Rhea looms over a smaller and more distant Epimetheus against a striking background of planet and rings....
The Boomerang nebula, called the coldest place in the universe, reveals its true shape to the Atacama Large...
NASA Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science OPALS operations team at Kennedy Space Center Space Launch Complex-40 on...
This image is an all-sky infrared map consisting of data taken by previous missions: the Infrared Astronomical...
Saturn rings occupy the space between two of the planet moons in this image, taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft, which...
This enhanced-color image from the HiRISE camera on NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a landscape of sand dunes...
This graphic illustrates how the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, or CIBER, team measures a diffuse glow of...
Saturn north polar hexagon basks in the Sun light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller...
Epimetheus, seen here by NASA Cassini spacecraft, with Saturn in the background, is lumpy and misshapen, thanks in...