NASA officially launches its new searchable Image and Video Library for public use!

Image courtesy: NASA (https://images.nasa.gov)

New Delhi: Space enthusiasts, rejoice! Those who feel left out and would love to know all the previous as well as the latest happenings within NASA, including their upcoming missions and experiments, the US space agency has the best announcement for you!

In a press release on Tuesday, NASA officially revealed its Image and Video Library website, to help the public search and download out-of-this-world images, videos and audio files by keyword and metadata searches from NASA.gov.

The website consolidates imagery spread across more than 60 collections into one searchable location.

According to the space agency, NASA Image and Video Library allows users to search, discover and download a treasure trove of more than 140,000 NASA images, videos and audio files from across the agency’s many missions in aeronautics, astrophysics, Earth science, human spaceflight, and more. Users now can embed content in their own sites and choose from multiple resolutions to download. The website also displays the metadata associated with images.

Users can browse the agency’s most recently uploaded files, as well as discover historic and the most popularly searched images, audio files and videos. Other features include:

• Automatically scales the interface for mobile phones and tablets
• Displays the EXIF/camera data that includes exposure, lens used, and other information, when available from the original image
• Allows for easy public access to high resolution files
• All video includes a downloadable caption file

Furthermore, the Library’s Application Programmers Interface (API) allows automation of imagery uploads for NASA, and gives members of the public the ability to embed content in their own sites and applications. This public site runs on NASA’s cloud native “infrastructure-as-a-code” technology enabling on-demand use in the cloud.

The library is not comprehensive, but rather provides the best of what NASA makes publicly available from a single point of presence on the web. Additionally, it is a living website, where new and archival images, video and audio files continually will be added, NASA said.