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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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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to take this image of the location where three of its 10...
This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying a Mars rock outrcrop. The mission will not only seek...
iss066e023179 (October 29, 2021) -- NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei samples a red...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, the Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer...
NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks at the horizon in this artist's concept. The mission will not only seek out and study...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- At Launch Complex 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Genesis spacecraft is...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the tower at Launch Complex 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the canister is...
This animation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting a rock sample from an outcrop the science team calls...
A portion of a cored-rock sample is ejected from the rotary percussive drill on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The...
The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its percussive drill to core and collect the "Main River"...
This enhanced-color image from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows a sample tube inside...
This composite of two images shows the hole drilled by NASA's Perseverance rover during its second sample-collection...
This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls "Berea" after the NASA Mars rover extracted a...
This image taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on Sept. 4, 2021, confirmed that the rover...
The first cored sample of Mars rock acquired by NASA's Perseverance rover is sealed inside its titanium container...
This September a Hollywood-style capture will highlight NASA's Genesis mission when it comes to an exciting climax....
An illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover exploring inside Mars' Jezero Crater. The 28-mile-wide...
The crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery got some recent hands-on experience with equipment they will soon take into...
This annotated map shows the locations where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collected its first witness tube and...
This Mastcam-Z image shows a sample of Mars rock inside the sample tube on Sept. 1, 2021 (the 190th sol, or Martian...
This image shows a cylinder of rock the size of a piece of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...
This image shows the journey of NASA's Perseverance rover across the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater in the...
“How does NASA collect surface samples from the Moon? The answer may surprise you! Explore the challenges of...
The Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis touches down on Runway 33 at 9:22:44 a.m. EST Jan. 22 to conclude the fifth...