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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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N-231 High Reynolds Number Channel Facility (An example of a Versatile Wind Tunnel) Tunnel 1 I is a blowdown...
S68-34580 (1968) --- With its exterior removed, the Apollo portable life support system (PLSS) can be easily...
art002m1200912231B (April 1, 2026) - A few minutes into the fight of NASA’s Artemis II mission is a view of the...
art002e012273 (April 6, 2026) - This view of the southwest portion of Orientale Basin highlights its prominent...
NASA's Super Guppy arrives in Alabama on Nov. 6, 2023, carrying the heat shield that protected Orion’s crew module...
ISS020-E-009861 (14 June 2009) --- Big Thompson Mesa in the Capitol Reef National Park, Utah is featured in this...
This image shows part of eastern Candor Chasma. At the top of the image is the steep cliff between the upper surface...
This image shows part of eastern Candor Chasma. At the top of the image is the steep cliff between the upper surface...
This artist animation illustrates how NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used radar to map the insides of the north...
This map shows the topography of the south polar region of Mars, including topography buried by thick deposits of...
This map shows the topography of the south polar region of Mars. The elevation of the terrain is shown by colors,...
Nature is an artist, and this time she seems to have let her paints swirl together a bit. What the viewer might...
This dark mound, called "Ireson Hill," rises about 16 feet (5 meters) above redder layered outcrop material of the...
Many Martian landscapes contain features that are familiar to ones we find on Earth, like river valleys, cliffs,...
Sedimentary deposits are common within Valles Marineris. Most larger chasmata contain kilometer-thick light-toned...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is part of a proposed landing site in Aram Dorsum for the ExoMars...
During its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on April 16, the Cassini spacecraft came within 1,025 kilometers...
This is the highest-resolution color departure shot of Pluto's receding crescent from NASA's New Horizons...
ISS038-E-036501 (28 Jan. 2014) --- This wide field-of-view image photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member on the...
The image on the left, taken by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, has been annotated to depict the...
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications...
On January 26, 2001, the Kachchh region in western India suffered the most deadly earthquake in India's history....
ISS017-E-006110 (2 May 2008) --- Vermilion Cliffs and Paria River, Arizona are featured in this image photographed...
Peering into the thousands of frozen layers inside Greenland’s ice sheet is like looking back in time. Each layer...