DEEP FIELDan atlas of the observable universe

04 · The films

Moving pictures

Footage straight from the NASA video archive — served as plain MP4 files, no platforms, no ads. Press play.

Apollo 11 — the restored moonwalkJuly 20, 1969 · Digitally restored broadcast footage · NASA
A solar flare in 4KSolar Dynamics Observatory, April 2016 · NASA/GSFC/SDO
Earth from orbitA year of satellite views of home · NASA/GSFC
Landing on Mars, autonomouslyHow Perseverance picked its own touchdown spot · NASA/JPL-Caltech

26 · The library

Free documents & open archives

The primary sources — mission transcripts, technical reports, research papers, telescope data, and every image NASA has ever released. All free, most in the public domain.

Books · PDF/EPUB

NASA Free e-Books

Full-length books on spacecraft design, mission histories, astrobiology, and aeronautics — free to download.

→ Technical reports

NASA Technical Reports Server

Hundreds of thousands of engineering documents and scientific papers going back to the NACA era.

→ Primary sources

Apollo Flight Journal

Annotated, minute-by-minute transcripts of every Apollo mission from launch to splashdown.

→ Research preprints

arXiv · astro-ph

New astrophysics research papers posted daily, free to read before journal publication.

→ Media archive

NASA Image & Video Library

The searchable archive behind every photo on this page — imagery, video, and audio in one place.

→ Daily

Astronomy Picture of the Day

One image of the cosmos each day since 1995, explained by professional astronomers.

→ Raw data

Planetary Data System

The raw scientific data from every NASA planetary mission — the same files researchers use.

→ Telescope data

MAST Archive

Observations from Hubble, Webb, TESS, and Kepler — downloadable by anyone, no credentials required.

→ Catalog

NASA Exoplanet Archive

The official, continuously updated catalog of every confirmed planet found around other stars.

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