CosmosObservatory
Explore
Solar System
Live
Learn
Tools
About
Cosmos Observatory
ToolsAbout
Cosmos Observatory

Explore the universe through NASA data, real-time ISS tracking, Mars rover imagery, asteroid monitoring, and comprehensive space encyclopedia. Your gateway to the cosmos.

Explore

  • APOD
  • Mars Rovers
  • Earth Imagery
  • NASA Gallery
  • ISS Tracker

Data

  • Asteroids
  • Solar System
  • Exoplanets
  • Space Weather
  • Launches

Tools

  • Glossary
  • News
  • Calculators

Legal

  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Space Tools
  • Contact

Stay updated with the cosmos

Get weekly digests of APOD highlights, upcoming launches, and space events.

© 2026 Cosmos Observatory. All rights reserved. Built with for space enthusiasts.

This website is not affiliated with, maintained, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with NASA or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. All NASA imagery is in the public domain unless otherwise noted. Data sourced from NASA Open APIs, Launch Library 2, and other open data services.

NASA Gallery

Explore NASA's vast collection of space images, videos, and audio from missions past and present.

  1. Home
  2. /
  3. NASA Gallery

NASA's Image and Video Library: A Visual Archive of Space Exploration

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.

Showing results for "ecology"

138 results found - Page 4 of 6

NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility check out the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF), designed and built by the Boeing Co. at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. WORF will be delivered to the International Space Station and placed in the rack position in front of the Destiny lab window, providing locations for attaching cameras, multi-spectral scanners and other instruments. WORF will support a variety of scientific and commercial experiments in areas of Earth systems and processes, global ecological changes in Earth’s biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and climate system, Earth resources, natural hazards, and education. After installation, it will become a permanent focal point for Earth Science research aboard the space station.
Image
Sep 8, 2003

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility check out the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF), designed and built by the Boeing Co. at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. WORF will be delivered to the International Space Station and placed in the rack position in front of the Destiny lab window, providing locations for attaching cameras, multi-spectral scanners and other instruments. WORF will support a variety of scientific and commercial experiments in areas of Earth systems and processes, global ecological changes in Earth’s biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and climate system, Earth resources, natural hazards, and education. After installation, it will become a permanent focal point for Earth Science research aboard the space station.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility check out the Window Observational...

KSC
NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility check out the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF), designed and built by the Boeing Co. at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. WORF will be delivered to the International Space Station and placed in the rack position in front of the Destiny lab window, providing locations for attaching cameras, multi-spectral scanners and other instruments. WORF will support a variety of scientific and commercial experiments in areas of Earth systems and processes, global ecological changes in Earth’s biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and climate system, Earth resources, natural hazards, and education. After installation, it will become a permanent focal point for Earth Science research aboard the space station.
Image
Sep 8, 2003

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility check out the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF), designed and built by the Boeing Co. at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. WORF will be delivered to the International Space Station and placed in the rack position in front of the Destiny lab window, providing locations for attaching cameras, multi-spectral scanners and other instruments. WORF will support a variety of scientific and commercial experiments in areas of Earth systems and processes, global ecological changes in Earth’s biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and climate system, Earth resources, natural hazards, and education. After installation, it will become a permanent focal point for Earth Science research aboard the space station.

NASA image: Develop Program Event and Poster Session
Image
Aug 6, 2024

Develop Program Event and Poster Session

Ikram Morso speaks about her project, Central Park Ecological Conservation, Tuesday, August 6, 2024, at the Mary W....

HQ
NASA image: Develop Program Event and Poster Session
Image
Aug 6, 2024

Develop Program Event and Poster Session

Ikram Morso speaks about her project, Central Park Ecological Conservation, Tuesday, August 6, 2024, at the Mary W....

HQ
NASA image: KSC00pp0697
Image
May 1, 2000

KSC00pp0697

Researchers work with wheat samples that are part of ground testing for the first International Space Station plant...

KSC
NASA image: NASA Science Live: Rising Seas [Episode 24]
Video
Nov 17, 2020

NASA Science Live: Rising Seas [Episode 24]

Sea levels across the globe are rising as a result of a changing climate — and the rate at which they are rising is...

GSFC
NASA image: Develop Program Event and Poster Session
Image
Aug 6, 2024

Develop Program Event and Poster Session

Ikram Morso speaks about her project, Central Park Ecological Conservation, Tuesday, August 6, 2024, at the Mary W....

HQ
NASA image: 2019 Earth Science Applications Showcase
Image
Aug 1, 2019

2019 Earth Science Applications Showcase

Roger Ly speaks about DEVELOP's Santa Monica Mountains Ecological Forecasting III project during the 2019 Annual...

HQ
NASA image: KSC-00pp0697
Image
May 1, 2000

KSC-00pp0697

Researchers work with wheat samples that are part of ground testing for the first International Space Station plant...

KSC
NASA image: KSC-2015-1256
Image
Jan 31, 2015

KSC-2015-1256

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – A Delta II rocket lifts off Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base,...

KSC
NASA image: Sea Grass Restoration Project
Image
Mar 29, 2023

Sea Grass Restoration Project

Kennedy Space Center’s Doug Scheidt (left), an ecologist working on NASA’s Environmental and Medical Contract...

KSC
NASA image: ABoVE campaign videos: Bubbles
Video
Aug 26, 2016

ABoVE campaign videos: Bubbles

The Arctic Boreal and Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) covers 2.5 million square miles of tundra, forests,...

GSFC
NASA image: NASA Discusses Latest Global Temperature Data
Image
Aug 14, 2023

NASA Discusses Latest Global Temperature Data

NASA Press Secretary Jackie McGuinness, left, Kate Calvin, NASA Chief Scientist and senior climate advisor, second...

HQ
NASA image: Develop Program Event and Poster Session
Image
Aug 6, 2024

Develop Program Event and Poster Session

Jackie Encinas speaks about her project, Alaska Ecological Conservation II, Tuesday, August 6, 2024, at the Mary W....

HQ
NASA image: Space Radar Image of Harvard Forest
Image
Apr 15, 1999

Space Radar Image of Harvard Forest

This is a radar image of the area surrounding the Harvard Forest in north-central Massachusetts that has been...

JPL
NASA image: NASA Tracks the Future of Asia's Glaciers
Video
Jun 26, 2019

NASA Tracks the Future of Asia's Glaciers

Asia’s high mountains are a crucial freshwater source to one-seventh of the world’s population. Snow and glaciers in...

GSFC
NASA image: DART Support for Hurricane Matthew
Image
Oct 18, 2016

DART Support for Hurricane Matthew

Plant debris left behind by Hurricane Matthew covers a stretch of the NASA Railroad near Launch Pads 39A and B at...

KSC
NASA image: PACE Live Launch Coverage - 720p
Video
Feb 8, 2024

PACE Live Launch Coverage - 720p

The live launch broadcast of the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission, NASA’s...

KSC
NASA image: International Space Station (ISS)
Image
May 14, 2001

International Space Station (ISS)

Astronaut James S. Voss, Expedition Two flight engineer, works with a series of cables on the EXPRESS Rack in the...

MSFC
NASA image: DART Support for Hurricane Matthew
Image
Oct 18, 2016

DART Support for Hurricane Matthew

Plant debris left behind by Hurricane Matthew covers a stretch of the NASA Railroad at Kennedy Space Center in...

KSC
NASA image: DART Support for Hurricane Matthew
Image
Oct 18, 2016

DART Support for Hurricane Matthew

Plant debris and ground erosion left behind by Hurricane Matthew affect a stretch of the NASA Railroad at Kennedy...

KSC
NASA image: PACE Prelaunch News Conference
Video
Feb 5, 2024

PACE Prelaunch News Conference

A prelaunch news briefing ahead of the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission,...

HQ
NASA image: Sea Grass Restoration Project
Image
Mar 29, 2023

Sea Grass Restoration Project

Kennedy Space Center Public Affairs Writer Danielle Sempsrott (right) interviews Jane Provancha, manager of the...

KSC
NASA image: DART Support for Hurricane Matthew
Image
Oct 18, 2016

DART Support for Hurricane Matthew

Plant debris left behind by Hurricane Matthew covers a stretch of the NASA Railroad near Launch Pads 39A and B at...

KSC
PreviousPage 4 of 6Next

Frequently Asked Questions About NASA Images

Are NASA images free to use?+
Yes, most NASA images are in the public domain and are free to use for educational, informational, and personal purposes. NASA's media usage guidelines state that NASA material is not copyrighted unless otherwise noted. However, the NASA logo and certain insignia are protected. Some images may include identifiable individuals or third-party content that requires additional permissions. Always check the specific image's usage rights and credit NASA as the source.
How many images does NASA have?+
NASA's Image and Video Library contains over 140,000 publicly accessible images, videos, and audio files spanning the agency's entire history, from the Mercury program of the 1960s to the latest James Webb Space Telescope discoveries. The collection grows daily as new missions capture imagery and archival materials are digitized. Individual mission archives, such as Mars rover photos, contain hundreds of thousands of additional images.
Can I download NASA images?+
Yes, you can download NASA images in multiple resolutions directly from this gallery. Each image detail page provides download links for original (full resolution), large (1920px), medium (960px), small (480px), and thumbnail sizes. NASA encourages the public to use these images for education, media, and personal projects. High-resolution originals are ideal for printing and professional use.

Explore More NASA Content

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Daily curated space image

Mars Rover Photos

Curiosity & Perseverance images

Earth from Space

DSCOVR EPIC daily images

Launch Schedule

Upcoming rocket launches

Space News

Mission updates & discoveries

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility check out the Window Observational...

KSC