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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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The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security -- Regolith Explorer spacecraft (OSIRIS-REx)...
This graph shows the relative elevation of various sampling sites visited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Colored...
Short for Operational Perseverance Twin for Integration of Mechanisms and Instruments Sent to Mars, OPTIMISM faces a...
Updated with new features, including additional mobility software and the bulk of the sample caching system, the...
The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security -- Regolith Explorer spacecraft (OSIRIS-REx)...
This enhanced-color mosaic showing the Martian surface outside of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA's Perseverance...
This map shows various quadrant themes in the vicinity of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which is currently in the...
This image of pebble-sized debris in the bit carousel on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was acquired on Jan. 7,...
The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security -- Regolith Explorer spacecraft (OSIRIS-REx)...
Stitched together from five images, this mosaic shows the calibration target for the SuperCam instrument aboard...
This is an artist's concept of the young Earth being bombarded by asteroids. Scientists think these impacts could...
Asteroid Bennu is a time capsule, containing the raw ingredients of the solar system. Bennu has settled in a...
This large asteroid, a proto-star undergoes fusion and our sun is born. This is the parent of Asteroid Bennu. Today,...
The path taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover during the first 1,000 sols (Martian days) of its mission at Jezero...
The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its percussive drill to eject fragments of cored rock from a...
NASA's Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called "Skinner Ridge" in Mars' Jezero...
This image taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on Sept. 7, 2021, PDT (Sept. 8, EDT), shows two holes where the...
The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security -- Regolith Explorer spacecraft (OSIRIS-REx)...
This image shows the back of Coring Bit 2 in the bit carousel of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. A wavy, stringlike...
ÒIf you just invest a little time and a little effort in people, you will get so much more back. Not only will you...
The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
Members of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Launch Control Center at NASA Kennedy Space Center, First Lady Laura Bush...