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Every photograph, video and audio recording NASA has released, searchable and free to use for anything.
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NASA Image and Video Library sits in Space & Scale under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Space, deep time and the size of things. Every site here exists to give you the one thing a textbook diagram cannot: actual scale.
Yes. NASA Image and Video Library is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use NASA Image and Video Library without signing up for anything.
Yes. NASA Image and Video Library works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
The official live stream, which for long stretches is simply Earth turning below the space station.
Drag one slider from quantum foam to the cosmic web, with every object in between labelled at its true size.
Ride a lift from the ground to geostationary orbit, passing every layer of atmosphere and satellite on the way.
NASA's tracker for when the space station is visible from where you live, with sighting alerts by email.
The full NASA satellite archive as daily global mosaics, with a date slider you can drag back two decades to watch ice, dust and smoke move.
Canada put its entire animation and documentary archive online for free, and some of it is the strangest work any government ever funded.
Georeferenced Ordnance Survey sheets you can fade against satellite imagery to see exactly what got demolished.
Rhizome's restored survey of a hundred works of net art, each with the context needed to understand why it mattered.
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