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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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Telescopes help distant objects appear bigger, but this is only one of their advantages. Telescopes can also collect...
This comparison of two views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken fairly close together in time, illustrates a...
The propeller informally named "Earhart" is seen in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft at much higher...
This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a rainbow of colors in this dying star, called IC 446. Like many other...
The image shows a region we see many slope streaks, typically dark features on slopes in the equatorial regions on...
This enhanced-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings, in the Keeler gap on...
This annotated map of depicts the areas on the surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede that were imaged by the Jovian...
This infrared view of Ganymede was obtained by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's...
This small 2 kilometer-wide crater was sitting around, minding its own business when a meteoroid struck the ground...
This computer-generated image is based on an infrared image of Jupiter's north polar region that was acquired on...
How are payloads installed on the Space Shuttle orbiter? Now the payload bay is usually filled with one, two, or...
Saturn's north polar region displays its beautiful bands and swirls, which somewhat resemble the brushwork in a...
ISS040-E-088891 (5 Aug. 2014) --- Thunderheads near Borneo, Indonesia are featured in this image photographed by an...
Clouds are a major component of the Earth’s system that reflect, absorb, and scatter sunlight and infrared emissions...
4.17 million miles (2.59 million miles) Resolution : 40 km. (25mi.) P-29498C This false color, Voyager 2 composite...
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity worked for 30 months on a raised segment of Endeavour Crater's rim called...
Is there any merit to the studies that show that historical CO2 levels lag behind temperature, and not lead them?...
These strange features in Syria Planum are still being widely debated. They have the same general form as transverse...
It's spring in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars (when this image was taken), and this area was recently completely...
AS16-118-18885 (16 April 1972) --- A good view of Earth photographed about one and one-half hours after trans-lunar...
In this animation, TEMPEST-D — a weather-observing satellite the size of a cereal box — captured imagery of...
“Discipline is one of the things that they instill with you [in the military.] All the way starting in boot camp,...
We've monitored the so-called Happy Face Crater in the south polar region of Mars for almost a decade. Two images...
In the high bay of Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, Chris Hardcastle, left, of...