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NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day

Anglo-Australian Observatory

  • Astronomical Images
    "These are some of the finest wide-field astronomy pictures made with professional telescopes anywhere and every effort has been made to capture the true colours of distant stars, galaxies and nebulae using innovative photographic techniques and CCD detectors. The images have detailed captions and the full NGC 2000.0 catalogue entry. Galaxy images also carry NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)data links."

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing - (dead link)

  • Images of Canada from Space - (dead link)

Clementine - DSPSE
Deep Space Program Science Experiment
"Its principal objective is to space qualify lightweight imaging sensors and component technologies for the next generation of Department of Defense (DoD) spacecraft. The Clementine mission uses the Moon, a near-Earth asteroid, and the spacecraft's Interstage Adapter (ISA) as targets to demonstrate lightweight component and sensor performance. As a secondary mission, Clementine returns valuable data of interest to the international civilian scientific sector."
- Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)

  • A Clementine Collection,
    "The following collection is an early sampling of the 1.8 million images acquired by the Clementine spacecraft."

Comet Hale-Bopp Image Archive - (dead link)
Over 5,000 images

Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter
Includes 1444 images from 64 observatories, animations, and the latest conclusions
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Earth and Moon Viewer
"You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe."
By John Walker

Earth from Space -- An Astronaut's View of our Home Planet
A dataset of selected Astronaut acquired imagery of Earth from The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography database of over 250,000 images.

Eclipse Gallery
"This is an archive of scanned photographic images from several recent solar eclipses."
Maintained by Bernie Verreau

European Space Agency

  • Multimedia Gallery
  • XMM-Newton Mission
    "ESA's X-ray space observatory is unique. It is the biggest scientific satellite ever built in Europe, its telescope mirrors were amongst the most powerful ever developed in the world, and with its sensitive cameras it will see much more than any previous X-ray satellite"...Achievements: "X-rays from accretion onto black holes, properties of exploding stars, nature of exotic matter, observations of GRB."

European Sothern Observatory (ESO)
"...is an intergovernmental, European organisation for astronomical research. It has eight member countries. ESO operates astronomical observatories in Chile and has its headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany."

A Global View from Space - (dead link) "An interactive and intuitive web-based display of realtime satellite imagery
from around the globe."
NASA

Goddard Space Flight Center - Photo and Movie Gallery - (dead link)

Great Globe Gallery - (dead link)
"This collection consists of the different maps and planiglobes, thematic and historical maps, cartographic nets in various projections (including equal-area as well as conformal ones), satellite images and artificial globes, icons and artistic visions as well as movies."
By Zbigniew Zwolinski

GRIN - Great Images in NASA
"...is a collection of over a thousand images of significant historical interest scanned at high-resolution in several sizes. This collection is intended for the media, publishers, and the general public looking for high-quality photographs."

Hubble Space Telescope Observations
Space Telescope Science Institute

Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)

  • Apollo Image Atlas
    "...is a collection of photographic images of the moon taken during the Apollo Saturn missions.

Lunar Prospector Archives - (dead link)
"...the largest collection of lunar media in the world...It contains literally MILLIONS of images, wave files, feature length films brought to you in streaming video, artwork, and many, many relevant documents."
NASA Ames Research Center

Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Image Gallery
"This site contains pictures of the planet Mars acquired by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter."
Contains more than 25,000 images
From Malin Space Science Systems

Mission to Mars - Athena Mars Exploration Rovers
Sections include: Mission Update ; Mars For Kids ; Educators ; Mars Facts ; The Mission ; Gallery ; News.

Mars Exploration Rover Mission Home (English or Spanish)
"NASA's Spirit Rover is starting to examine its new surroundings, revealing a vast flatland well suited to the robot's unprecedented mobility and scientific toolkit."
Sections include: Mars for Kids ; Mars for Students ; Mars for Educators ; Mars for Press ; Multimedia ; Overview ; Science ; Technology ; The Mission ; Features ; Events.
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech.

MOC [Mars Orbiter Camera] Images Suggest Recent Sources of Liquid Water on Mars
 Press Release, June 22, 2000

Moon Photo Gallery
National Space Science Data Collection

National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
"...archives and provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data from NASA space flight missions, in addition to selected other data and some models and software."

Pictures Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute

NASA - See our NASA Resources page.

NASA Image Exchange
Search the archive of nine NASA databases


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Photo Gallery of Mars
National Space Science Data Center

Planetary Photojournal
"...a collaboration between NASA's Planetary Data System Imaging Node, the Solar System Visualization Project - (dead link),and JPL's Public Information Office, is designed to provide you with easy access to the publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs. The system database is currently populated with approximately 1190 images; more are being added every day."

Planetary Picture List - (dead link)
These pages collect together references to many pictures of the solar system that can be found on the Net
Bill Arnett

Planetary Sciences at the National Space Science Data Center
"NASA's deep archive and general distribution center for lunar and planetary data and images."

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

  • Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
    "...is the scientific research unit within the Collections and Research Department of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. CEPS performs original research and outreach activities on topics covering planetary science, terrestrial geophysics, and the remote sensing of environmental change."
    • Image Collections - (dead link)

SPACE.com
Sections include: Destinations ; News ; SpaceFlight ; Science ; Technology ; Entertainment ; SpaceViews ; NightSkys ; Community.

Space Images Archive - (dead link)

Space Shuttle Photographs - (dead link)
"CEPS maintains an extensive collection of photographs taken by space shuttle astronauts using hand-held cameras as well as some radar imagery. The collection contains photographs from STS-41C to the present and is continually growing with each space shuttle mission."
Center for Earth and Planetary Studies

Space Telescope Science Institute

Spitzer Space Telescope
"Spitzer will be the final mission in NASA's Great Observatories Program - a family of four orbiting observatories, each observing the Universe in a different kind of light (visible, gamma rays, X-rays, and infrared)."
Sections include: Images ; About Spitzer ; Science ; Technology ; NewsRoom.
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Terra (EOS AM-1)
"...is the flagship of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), a major international science program to monitor climate and environmental change. Terra is collecting a new global data set to enable research into the ways that Earth's lands, oceans, atmosphere, ice, radiant energy, and life function as a whole system. In February 2000, Terra reached final orbit and acquired its first images, some of which are now available to the public!"

Two Micron All Sky Survey at IPAC (2MASS)
 "..., 2MASS is uniformly scanning the entire sky in three near-infrared bands to detect and characterize point sources brighter than about 1 mJy in each band, with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) greater than 10, using a pixel size of 2.0". This will achieve an 80,000-fold improvement in sensitivity relative to earlier surveys."

  • First large Incremental Release
    "...of northern hemisphere data occurred in 1999 Spring. This release covered about 2483 square degrees, i.e., ~6% of the sky."
  • Second large Incremental Release
     "...of northern and southern hemisphere data in 2000 Winter. This release covers more than 19,600 square degrees, i.e., ~47% of the sky."

University of Washington N-Body Shop

  • UW HPCC Group Picture Gallery - (dead link)

USGS - Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center
"The World's leading source of land information for exploring our changing planet"
Image sections include: Aerial ; Map ; Elevation ; Satellite ; Land Cover

  • Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
    "Mapping The World in 3 Dimensions"
    "...can be used to create maps, which in turn can be used to create water drainage models, more realistic flight simulators, locations for cell phone towers, navigation safety and even improved maps for backpackers."

Virtual Sky! - (dead link)
"...provides stunning, seamless images of the night sky; not just an album of popular places, but the entire northern sky at high resolution. Virtual Sky has ingested the complete DPOSS survey (Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey), with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface that anyone can use. Users can zoom out so the entire sky is on the screen, or zoom in, to a maximum resolution of 1.4 seconds per pixel, a magnification of 2000. Another theme is the Hubble Deep Field, an further magnification of 32. There is also a gallery of interesting places, and a blog (bulletin board) where users can record comments.
Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology

Welcome to the Planets
"This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program. The collection has been extracted from the interactive program 'Welcome to the Planets' which was distributed on the Planetary Data System Educational CD-ROM Version 1.5 in December 1995. It has also been updated with the addition of more recent images."

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