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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.
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Technicians at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida receive scientific research...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers help guide the crane moving...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Genesis spacecraft, enclosed in its protective cover, is transported from the...
Optimism, a full-scale replica of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, tests a model of Perseverance's regolith bit in a...
The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) Shields-1 CubeSat will demonstrate a research payload with materials...
The completed spacecraft that will carry NASA's next Mars rover to the Red Planet is suspended by cables as it is...
An engineer inspects the completed spacecraft that will carry NASA's next Mars rover to the Red Planet, prior to a...
Engineers working with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover set up this test area at the agency's Jet Propulsion...
These abrasion targets, nicknamed "Guilliamus" (left) and "Bellegarde" (right), are from the first and second rocks...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this enhanced color image of "Hogwallow Flats"...
This mosaic image (composed of multiple individual images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover) shows a rock outcrop...
This map shows the planned route NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will take across the top of Jezero Crater's delta in...
On a test flight in Death Valley, California, an Airbus helicopter carried an engineering model of the Lander Vision...
The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) Shields-1 CubeSat will demonstrate a research payload with materials...
Industry spends billions of dollars each year on machine tools to manufacture products out of metal. This includes...
The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) Shields-1 CubeSat will demonstrate a research payload with materials...
The location where NASA's Perseverance will begin depositing its first cache of samples is shown in this image taken...
This image taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on August 6, 2021, shows the hole drilled in a Martian rock in...
This image of "Yori Pass" was taken by one of the Hazard-Avoidance Cameras (Hazcams) on NASA's Perseverance Mars...
Intriguing Martian rocks surround NASA's Perseverance rover in this panorama showing an ancient river delta, made...
An historic milestone for Perseverance, a busy week of activity at the space station, and a target launch date for...
Before collecting a rock sample at a spot nicknamed "Otis Peak," NASA's Perseverance Mars rover employed an abrasion...
In this Apollo 17 onboard photo, Mission Commander Eugene A. Cernan adjusts the U.S. flag deployed upon the Moon....
In this Apollo 17 onboard photo, a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is parked beside a huge boulder near the Valley of...