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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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An oil slick from naturally occurring oil seeps off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. The NASA-NOAA Marine Oil...
This archival image was released as part of a gallery comparing JPL’s past and present, commemorating the 80th...
On the left is a radar image of asteroid 1998 WT24 taken in December 2001 by scientists using NASA's the 230-foot...
Why does Saturn look like it's been painted with a dark brush in this infrared image, but Dione looks untouched?...
This illustration depicts the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a mission led by NASA and the...
This Chandra image of Jupiter shows concentrations of aurora x-rays near the north and south poles due to a single...
The 230-foot 70-meter DSS-14 antenna at Goldstone, Ca. obtained these radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145 on Oct....
This illustration depicts the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, a mission led by NASA and the French...
Dust devils form by rising and rotating warm air pockets. Air near the soil surface can become heated by contact...
The illustration above shows sea levels off the coasts of Peru and Ecuador on Aug. 12, 2023, and Oct. 3, 2023. The...
X-rays diffracted from a well-ordered protein crystal create sharp patterns of scattered light on film. A computer...
As landing technology improves and these landing ellipses shrink, missions can aim for more precise landings,...
This data visualization image above shows sea surface heights off the northern California coast in August 2023 as...
This artist's concept depicts the NISAR satellite in orbit over central and Northern California. Short for NASA-ISRO...
The NISAR satellite, partially covered in gold-hued thermal blanketing, is seen at the Indian Space Research...
This radargram shows data collected by the Shallow Radar, or SHARAD, on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on...
This view of Martian surface features shaped by effects of winds was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science...
This illustration depicts the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite with solar arrays fully deployed....
The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, is a laser altimeter that will measure the heights of...
Animations for media and public use. These animations show the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite orbiting Earth...
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO) shows one possible place where sand grains are being...
This animation shows global sea level data collected by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite...
Chausey is a group of small islands and islets off the coast of Normandy and is part of the French Channel Islands....
A crane lowers a four-legged support structure called a quadripod onto the steel framework of the Deep Space Station...