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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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Stewart Whaley, Cameron Muelling, foreground, and teamsat NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center help monitor launch...
Stewart Whaley, Cameron Muelling, foreground, and teams at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center help monitor launch...
Stewart Whaley, Cameron Muelling, foreground, and teams at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center help monitor launch...
STS112-E-05142 (11 October 2002) --- A view of the Starboard One (S1) Truss, newly installed on the International...
Commercial Crew Program (CCP) SpaceX Merlin Engine Gas Generator (GG) Baffle Assessment, Mr. Brian Richardson...
View from a NASA aircraft, TG-14, over the Superbloom of wildflowers and poppies from the Antelope Valley in...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays the launch of an ascent vehicle. The solar...
Each of these Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveals four distorted images of a background quasar (an extremely...
This graphic illustrates how a faraway quasar (an extremely bright region in the center of some distant galaxies) is...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Smoke from a successful controlled burn near KSC’s Launch Complex 39 surrounds the...
Southwestern US, with Las Vegas, NV in foreground, taken by X-15 Hycon HR-236 Camera during flt. 2-39-70 on June 27,...
This false-color scene from the panoramic camera Pancam on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity catches Pillinger...
This 3-D view from the navigation camera on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a vista across Endeavour...
This 360-degree panorama was taken by NASA Mars Pathfinder. Three petals and the perimeter of the deflated airbags...
This scene from the panoramic camera Pancam on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity catches Pillinger Point, on...
A landscape scene from NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows rock rows at Junda forming striations in the foreground, with...
Sunset on Mars catches NASA Mars Science Laboratory in the foreground in this artist concept. The mission is under...
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to record this vista looking eastward across...
NASA's Sojourner rover is seen next to the rock "Shark," in this image taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP)...
This is the first 360-degree panoramic view from NASA Curiosity rover, taken with the Navigation cameras. Mount...
A stereo landscape scene from NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows rock rows at Junda forming striations in the...
The pale rocks in the foreground of this Aug. 14, 2014, image from NASA Curiosity Mars rover include the Bonanza...
NASA Cassini spacecraft watches a pair of Saturn moons, showing the hazy orb of giant Titan beyond smaller Tethys....
This image shows a close-up of track marks from the first test drive of NASA Curiosity rover. The rover arm is...