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NASA has spent decades pushing the bounds of homo innovation and exploration, and it's documented every second of it in excruciating particular. Finding all those images and videos used to exist a pain, just no more than. NASA has announced a new searchable version of its public Image and Video Library. You tin visit it right now and become access to more than 140,000 NASA images, videos, and audio files.

The available media covers more than than space missions. At that place'due south content from NASA'south endeavors in helmsmanship, astrophysics, Earth science, and of course, human spaceflight. The site scales properly to desktop and mobile devices at present. Just enter some text in the search box at the elevation and you can notice all the content related to your keywords. There's also a "newest uploads" and "most popular" section of the site for easy access without searching. When performing a search, the NASA library includes filters for images, videos, and audio. You can also narrow your search by year with a slider on the left.

Near of the content available on the revamped NASA site are images. Each one has the original EXIF data preserved. That means you tin can run across interesting metrics about the exposure, lens, focal length, and more. The folio for each epitome includes linked keywords, which you tin employ to immediately launch a new search and detect like images. Should you decide to download something, the site makes multiple resolution versions available. In that location'due south a caption file for each image as well.

This isn't every piece of multimedia information NASA has collected over the years, merely there's all the same a lot. NASA plans to add together more than content over time using an automatic image upload API developed for the Image and Video Library.

Here are a couple particularly cool things we found in NASA'southward archives.