Photojournal: NASA's Image Access Home Page: Bring the Universe to You

Photojournal provides easy-to-use search tools intended to help the general public navigate the thousands of beautiful images collected by NASA exploration programs over the years.

Visitors start by selecting a celestial body from the graphic on the home page. Each planet and object links to an image gallery. The search results can be refined further by target, mission, spacecraft, or instrument, or if visitors know an image's unique PIA number, they can search for it directly. Clicking on a thumbnail opens the full record, including a detailed caption and information about the mission and instruments responsible for capturing the image. All images are high-quality data products of NASA missions, and new images are added daily.

In addition to planetary systems, Photojournal links to a gallery of images of the instruments and technology that make the missions possible, and spectacular animations that include time-lapse images of the Mars rover Curiosity's first 12 months on the planet and Jupiter's massive red storm.

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(Recommended in June 2014 issue of ALA's Choice)