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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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Some geological materials (like solid rock) are incredibly tough, but others (like piles of volcanic ash) are quite...
One concern about human adaptation to space is how returning from the microgravity of orbit to Earth can affect an...
In this perspective view, NASA MESSENGER spacecraft looked northwest over the Caloris Basin, a depression about 1500...
NASA image captured April 2, 2011 Twice a year, SDO enters an eclipse season where the spacecraft slips behind Earth...
Saturn's cloud belts generally move around the planet in a circular path, but one feature is slightly different. The...
"I still can't get over the fact that I actually work at NASA. If you had told the little girl years ago who was...
Known as the cradle, the structure that supports the primary mirror on NASA's Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope...
A gold-coated mirror panel on NASA's Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations...
The mirror on NASA's Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at...
This view from within "Perseverance Valley," on the inner slope of the western rim of Endurance Crater on Mars,...
Ceres surface shows evidence for different types of flows that indicate the presence of ice in the regolith. One...
ISS033-E-022759 (18 Nov. 2012) --- Agricultural fields under snow in easternmost China are featured in this image...
This picture, taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus...
NASA image captured April 1, 2011 Twice a year, SDO enters an eclipse season where the spacecraft slips behind Earth...
The Artemis II crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space...
Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see the currents in our atmosphere. This visualization...
This computer-generated image shows the structure of the cyclonic pattern observed over Jupiter's south pole. Like...
“I am a Black woman in STEM. And when I was growing up, I cannot say that I saw a lot of faces that looked like mine...
STS060-88-070 (3-11 Feb 1994) --- This view shows sunglint in the Strait of Gibralter. In this photograph a high...
jsc2020e041336 (Sep 21, 2020) - “There are obvious highlights [about my job] and then there are some highlights that...
“I liked every subject in school, but I think I always liked math and science the most. At the time, math seemed to...
This map of Titan's surface illustrates the regions that will be imaged by Cassini during the spacecraft's close...
At around 2,200 kilometers in diameter, Hellas Planitia is the largest visible impact basin in the Solar System, and...
Comet ISON makes its appearance into the higher-resolution HI-1 camera on the STEREO-A spacecraft. The dark...