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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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The payload fairing is installed on the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket at the Horizontal Integration Facility at...
ISS041-S-001 (July 2013) --- The Expedition 41 crew members have released their patch and have written some text to...
ISS029-S-001 (23 March 2011) --- On the Expedition 29 patch, the International Space Station (ISS) is shown...
At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, technicians from Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin have...
The International Astronomical Union recently approved names for 16 impact craters on Mercury. Several of the...
This color-coded map from NASA Dawn mission shows the highs and lows of topography on the surface of dwarf planet...
This map of Titan shows the names of many (but not all) features on the Saturnian moon that have been approved by...
iss071-s-001 (Aug. 31, 2023) --- For nearly a quarter of a century the International Space Station (ISS) has hosted...
This image contains the initial, informal names being used by NASA's New Horizons team for the features and regions...
This image contains the initial, informal names being used by NASA's New Horizons team for the features on Pluto's...
This image contains the initial, informal names being used by NASA's New Horizons team for the features on Pluto's...
jsc2024e062114 (9/13/2024) --- The ANT1 Radiation Tolerance Experiment with Moss in Orbit on the Space Station...
NASA successfully launched a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket carrying student experiments...
This video shows all four RS-25 engines attached to the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket for the...
This video shows how teams at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans moved the core stage, complete with...
This video shows the core stage final assembly area at Michoud Assembly Facility for NASA's new rocket, the Space...
The first organizational chart of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) which was approved and signed by...
Sunlight washes over the exterior of the integration and testing facility at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,...
iss064-s-001 (June 17, 2020) --- The official insignia for the Expedition 64 crew.
Expedition 29 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz...
A detail view of one of the OSAM-1 robotic arms after being integrated onto the flight payload top-deck at Goddard...
Aircraft maintenance crews at NASA‘s Armstrong Flight Research Center prepare the remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft...
Members of the State Commission meet to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka,...
Quality Assurance engineer Lucinda Taylor unreels a power cord across the cleanroom floor at Goddard Space Flight...