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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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The NEOCam chip is the first megapixel sensor capable of detecting infrared wavelengths at temperatures achievable...
The Thermal and Electrical Conductivity Probe on NASA Phoenix Mars Lander detected small and variable amounts of...
A visualization of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, as detected by ESA Planck satellite...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has detected the building blocks of life in the distant universe, albeit in a violent...
This computer graphic image shows three craters in the eastern Hellas region of Mars containing concealed glaciers...
This video and audio illustrates a seismic event detected by NASA's InSight on April 6, 2019, the 128th Martian day,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Dr. Richard Arkin records data as the hazardous gas detection system AVEMS is used to...
NASA Goddard scientists have made an exciting discovery on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The team has definitively...
In this test image by SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals),...
This artist's concept shows ESA's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, which launched on Dec. 3, 2015, from Kourou, French...
On this map of Mars, spectrometers on spacecraft orbiting Mars have detected clay minerals green and hydrated...
Melas Chasma is the widest segment of the Valles Marineris canyon, and is an area where NASA Mars Reconnaissance...
This visual represents sounds captured of interstellar space by NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft. Voyager 1 plasma wave...
Observations by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have detected carbon-dioxide snow clouds on Mars and evidence of...
This image, using data from NASA Galileo mission, shows the first detection of clay-like minerals on the surface of...
Astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds the...
This graph shows the temperature differences in the oldest light in the universe, called the cosmic microwave...
This strikingly crisp view shows Atlas heading into Saturn shadow at upper left. The moon basic, elongated shape is...
This diagram illustrates how the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons DAN instrument on NASA Curiosity Mars rover detects...
The first examinations of Martian soil by the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, instrument on NASA Mars Curiosity...
Three astronomers explain how Hubble acts like a time machine by detecting which galaxies are moving toward and away...
This diagram illustrates how the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons DAN instrument on NASA Curiosity Mars rover detects...
This graphic illuminates the process by which astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first...
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer photographed this ultraviolet color blowup of the Groth Deep Image on June 22 and...