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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 view from the navigation camera on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows tracks left by backing out of...
NASA Terra spacecraft passed over the Blue Mountains to the west and north of Sydney, A mild winter and an extremely...
This image acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft is of the Sierra Leone estuary, which became a focal point for trade...
This frame from an animation shows Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars, passing overhead, as observed by...
One crucial step in NASA Mars sample return mission would be to launch the collected sample away from the surface of...
This map shows the route driven by NASA Curiosity Mars rover from the Bradbury Landing location where it landed in...
NASA Dawn spacecraft will be getting an up-close look at the dwarf planet Ceres starting in late March or the...
This image from NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft displays a frosted crater in the Martian northern hemisphere. It was...
In this infrared view from the Herschel Observatory, a European Space Agency mission, blue shows the warmest dust,...
After lying dormant for 70 years, Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador started erupting the week of Aug. 17, 2015. NASA Terra...
The largest storm to ravage Saturn in decades started as a small spot seen in this image from NASA Cassini...
This VIS image shows a short section of Reull Vallis. Reull Vallis starts in Promethei Terra and empties into Hellas...
This VIS image shows a section of an unnamed channel. This channel starts within Claritas Fossae and empties down...
This VIS image shows a short section of Reull Vallis. Reull Vallis starts in Promethei Terra and empties into Hellas...
The 2025 internship class at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, stand in front of the...
Claudia Sales, NASA’s acting X-59 deputy chief engineer and airworthiness certification lead for the quiet...
NASA’s flight systems engineer, Kassidy Mclaughlin adjusts a visual approach aid for aircraft called Pulse Light...
NASA's InSight lander used the scoop on its robotic arm to begin trickling soil over the cable connecting its...
NASA’s flight systems engineer, Kassidy Mclaughlin conducts environmental testing on an instrumentation pallet. The...
Claudia Sales, NASA’s acting X-59 deputy chief engineer and airworthiness certification lead for the quiet...
2019 is an excellent year to look to the sky and enjoy the spectacular view of Earth’s nearest neighbor, the Moon.
A test operator in clean-room garb holds umbilical cables for NASA Mars rover Curiosity during the rover first drive...
Julio Treviño, lead operations engineer for NASA’s Global Hawk SkyRange project, stands in front of an F/A-18...
Teams with Exploration Ground Systems Program are starting to install the emergency egress baskets on the mobile...