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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 graph displays data collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover from targets in a rock formation nicknamed...
What appear to be boulders fresh from a tumble down a mountain are really grains of Ottawa sand, a standard material...
During their August 2023 Iceland field campaign, international science team members of NASA's VERITAS (Venus...
NASA's Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer instrument (AVIRIS), flying aboard a NASA Armstrong Flight...
The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and...
The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and...
The Ralph instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft detected water ice on Pluto's surface, picking up on the...
Members of the VERITAS science team pause for a photograph on July 31, 2023, after arriving in Iceland to begin a...
Seen here are members of the international team that participated in recent tests on prototype hardware for the...
NICER’s X-ray concentrator optics are inspected under a black light for dust and foreign object debris that could...
NICER engineer Steven Kenyon installs an X-ray detector onto the payload’s detector plate. The detectors are...
NICER engineer Steven Kenyon prepares seven of the 56 X-ray concentrators for installation in the NICER instrument....
Optics Lead Takashi Okajima prepares to align NICER’s X-ray optics. The payload’s 56 mirror assemblies concentrate...
NICER Optics Lead Takashi Okajima installs one of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators,” each consisting of 24 concentric...
A photo taken during the NICER range-of-motion test at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shows the photographer’s...
This video shows the SPHEREx observatory's field of view as it scans across a section of the sky, observing the...
Seen here in March 2023, prototype hardware for the Venus Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (VISAR) underwent...
The NICER payload, blanketed and waiting for launch in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
Many of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators” seen from within the instrument optical bench. Light reflected from the...
The combination of morphological and topographic information from stereo images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance...
Engineers in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in April 2023 examine the...
A NICER team member measures the focused optical power of each X-ray concentrator in a clean tent at NASA’s Goddard...
NICER team members Takashi Okajima, Yang Soong, and Steven Kenyon apply epoxy to the X-ray concentrator mounts after...
Different kinds of carbon-based molecules called organic compounds were viewed within a rock target called "Garde"...