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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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The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
Technicians move a full-scale engineering version of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover into to its new home — a garage...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29,...
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the...
The full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover raises its "head," or remote sensing mast, at NASA's...
Now on the NASA Space Shuttle Status Report: It Takes Two. An important, second test on Space Shuttle Discovery's...
This close-up view of a rock target named "Dourbes" was provided by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for...
This composite image, made from four taken by the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 8,...
This annotated image of Mars' Jezero Crater depicts the route NASA's Perseverance rover will take during its first...
Your science is ready for delivery. 📦 NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick closes out the Dragon spacecraft in...
NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through...
Naming a mountain on the Moon, watching and helping from space, and a sample wide shot from Mars … a few of the...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers and rotates over Jezero Crater during its second experimental flight test on...
Video footage from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this closeup view of the...
MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) was launched aboard NASA's Perseverance rover to test a...
Video footage from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover provides a big-picture perspective of the 13th flight of NASA's...
Taken Feb. 22, 2021, this image from the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover shows the first target...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic of a location nicknamed "Castell Henllys" using its Mastcam-Z...
The route of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover – from its landing site on the floor of Jezero Crater to the ancient...
This video shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its auto-navigation, or AutoNav, technology to drive 548 feet...
Irene Parker, deputy assistant administrator, NOAA Systems, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Services,...
This composite image of the first borehole drilled by NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars was generated using multiple...
This enhanced-color image of Mars' Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance...