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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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Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room - mission samples provided to UC Berkeley for analysis by NASA: Dr...
Onboard Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-65) Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao (top) and Mission Specialist Donald A. Thomas...
Christiane Gumera, right, a student at Stanton College Preparatory High School in Jacksonville, AL, examines a...
iss062e075187 (March 3, 2020) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 62 Flight Engineer Jessica Meir swaps media that...
Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist - mission samples...
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover lives up to its name by enduring a series of tests to prepare for its journey to...
Trailer for the OSIRIS-REx Touch-And-Go (TAG) Event at asteroid Bennu, on October 20, 2020.
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what...
A portion of a cored-rock sample is ejected from the rotary percussive drill on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has used the drill on its robotic arm to take 32 rock samples to date. The Mars Hand...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lift the Mars 2020 rover's bit carousel out of its storage container....
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this image of its 36th successful drill...
This diagram, superimposed on a photo of Martian landscape, illustrates a concept called "adaptive caching," which...
Crystal Growth Furnace (CGF) without the EAC internal support structure. Flown on USML-1 and USML-2. The Principal...
jsc2023e053547 (3/32023) --- Granular Sound: open sample cell, completely filled with glass beads. On the left, the...
iss065e277010 (Aug. 19, 2021) --- A view of cell samples for the Anti-Atrophy muscle investigation inside the...
NASA Astronaut Christina Koch, left, holds a test sample for Victor J. Glover to photograph. The sample is a...
ISS038-E-053780 (18 Feb. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38 flight engineer, uses a Microbial...
jsc2020e017721 (3/30/2020) --- A preflight view of a Polarized light micrograph of an Al-4%Cu alloy sample...
S69-60424 (29 Nov. 1969) --- Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, holds...
iss050e057428 (03/15/2017) --- NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough removes a storage locker in the Minus Eighty-degree...
iss055e043245 (April 30, 2018) --- NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold transfers frozen biological samples from science...
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide,Expedition 33 flight engineer,is photographed...
Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist - mission samples...