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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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This observation captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a couple of landforms that may result from the...
The style of erosion along the highlands-lowlands boundary of southern Elysium Planitia has produced a strange...
Looking like a spider web swirled into a spiral, galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this...
Rhythmic patterns of sedimentary layering in Danielson Crater on Mars result from periodic changes in climate...
Looking like a spider web swirled into a spiral, galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this...
NASA Cassini spacecraft takes one of its last good looks at Iapetus, a Saturnian moon known for its yin-yang-like,...
This observation from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a set of landforms that appears to form a nested...
Freedom crater, located in Acidalia Planitia, exhibits a concentric ring pattern in its interior as seen in this...
This evenly layered rock photographed by the Mast Camera Mastcam on NASA Curiosity Mars Rover on Aug. 7, 2014, shows...
This set of images from NASA Cassini spacecraft shows cloud patterns in a band around Saturn before a monstrous...
NASA's Viking Orbiter 1 spies the north polar residual ice cap, which is cut by spiral-patterned troughs and...
This color-enhanced view of NASA Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars was taken by NASA Mars Reconnaissance...
This is an image from NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft of an area within Acidalia Planitia that contains patterned...
Do you see what I see in this image from NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft? Looks like a thumb up or a mitten pattern in...
Logging operations have left a striking checkerboard pattern in the landscape along the Idaho-Montana border,...
This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures light-toned ridges found in a large fracture located east...
This side-by-side comparison shows the X-ray diffraction patterns of two different samples collected from rocks on...
This infrared view looks toward middle to high northern latitudes on Saturn, revealing entrancing meanders in the...
These images, made from data obtained by Curiosity CheMin, show the patterns obtained from a drift of windblown dust...
The north polar residual ice cap of the Planum Boreum region, which is cut by spiral-patterned troughs, is located...
This radar image of Lisbon, Portugal illustrates the different land use patterns that are present in coastal...
These two false-color views from NASA Cassini spacecraft show detailed patterns that change during one Saturn day...
These computer-generated images from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope chart the development of severe weather patterns...