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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.
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iss064e041189 (March 11, 2021) --- The Canadarm2 robotic arm, with an external pallet packed with old...
ISS034-E-009926 (21 Dec. 2012) --- As the International Space Station and Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft were making their...
ISS041-E-045469 (27 Sept. 2014) --- One of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the International Space Station,...
41D-34-099 (30 Aug-5 Sept 1984) --- The Gambia River, from Georgetown in the upper right corner of the photograph...
ISS012-E-09639 (29 Nov. 2005) --- The impact of an asteroid or comet several hundred million years ago, according to...
STS079-808-008 (16-26 Sept. 1996) --- In this 70mm frame from the space shuttle Atlantis, the Nile River wanders...
ISS022-E-066972 (17 Feb. 2010) --- This image is the first taken through a first of its kind “bay window” on the...
ISS034-E-009924 (21 Dec. 2012) --- As the International Space Station and Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft were making their...
This is a view of the Emi Koussi Caldera captured by the Expedition Six Crew Observation (CEO) experiment aboard the...
SL4-138-3756 (28 Dec. 1973) --- The northern half of Mauritania's Atlantic Coast, as photographed from the Skylab...
Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see the currents in our atmosphere. This visualization...
ISS013-E-65526 (8 Aug. 2006) --- Issaouane Dune Sea, Eastern Algeria is featured in this image photographed by an...
This image shows locations in parts of North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia observed by NASA's...
The ability of a sophisticated radar instrument to image large regions of the world from space, using different...
AS08-16-2588 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible in this view from Apollo 8...
ISS017-E-013025 (12 Aug. 2008) --- The Tifernine Dune Field in Algeria is featured in this image photographed by an...
ISS022-E-005258 (1 Dec. 2009) --- This detailed hand-held digital camera?s image recorded from the International...
ISS013-E-75141 (2 Sept. 2006) --- Erg Oriental, Algeria is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 13...
What connects Earth's largest, hottest desert to its largest tropical rainforest? The Sahara Desert is a...
STS099-729-045 (11-22 February 2000) ---This Earth scene from the Space Shuttle Endeavour features linear dunes in...
A piece of Africa—actually lots of them—began to arrive in the Americas in June 2014. On June 23, a lengthy river of...
ISS005-E-11189 (25 August 2002) --- Calanscio Sand Sea, Libya is featured in this digital image photographed by an...
Every full moon, Landsat 8 turns its back on Earth. As the satellite's orbit takes it to the nighttime side of the...
ISS031-E-148455 (21 June 2012) --- Toshka Lakes in southern Egypt are featured in this image photographed by an...