Historical Scientific Footage

A collection of historic images and footage showcasing advancements in production and science, including X-ray films and early NASA lunar exploration.

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Ichthyosauric coproliths of Lyme Regis lias, vintage engraved illustration. From Natural Creation and Living Beings.
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Engraving depicting Galileo Galilei's drawing of the crescent Moon. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) an Italian polymath. Dated 17th century
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This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 12, 2006. North Polar Pass (Northern Lakes Region, Aaru).
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Medical group items.
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This MOC image shows billowing clouds of dust rising from a storm southeast of Hellas Planitia. The dust storm in this case obscured the Mars Orbiter Camera's view of the martian surface
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Bacteria cell diagram displaying labeled components including cell wall, and cytoplasm. Ideal for biology, microbiology, research articles, educational posters, teaching materials, academic. Bacteria Cell Diagram with Labels and Descriptions for Educational Use
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This image composite shows a part of the Orion constellation surveyed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The shape of the main image was designed by astronomers to roughly follow the shape of Orion cloud A, an enormous star-making factory.
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Microscopium constellation, Cluster of stars, Microscope constellation Microscopium constellation, Cluster of stars, Microscope constellation Copyright: xZoonar.com/AleksandarxVukicevicx 19383649
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Strontium Emission Spectra
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ISS043E182380 (05/08/2015) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station captured this desert scene in northern Africa on May 8th, 2015. The area shown is the Calanscio Sand Sea, in northeastern Libya.
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Pyxis constellation, Cluster of stars, Compass constellation, Pyxis Nautica Pyxis constellation, Cluster of stars, Compass constellation, Pyxis Nautica Copyright: xZoonar.com/AleksandarxVukicevicx 19383165
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This enhanced-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings, in the Keeler gap on the sunlit side of the rings. Daphnis is seen kicking up three waves in the gap's outer edge. Three wave crests of diminishing sizes trail the moon. In each successive crest, the shape of the wave changes as the ring particles within the crest interact and collide with each other. A thin strand of ring material to the lower left of Daphnis is newly visible in this image, and there are intricate features that also hadn't been previously observed in the third wave crest downstream (see Figure 1). Cassini was at a very shallow angle above the rings (only about 15 degrees) when this image was taken. The resulting foreshortening makes it difficult to tell the difference in this image between features representing vertical structure and those representing radial, or outward from Saturn, structure within the ring plane. Nonetheless, Cassini imaging scientists have determined that
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Hazes near Jupiter's Limb (60 degrees North, 315 degrees West)
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Equuleus constellation, Cluster of stars, Pony constellation, Little Horse Equuleus constellation, Cluster of stars, Pony constellation, Little Horse Copyright: xZoonar.com/AleksandarxVukicevicx 19383138
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Absorbtion Spectra for Lithium
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. Perseverance Rover Looks West. Composed of 53 images, this mosaic looks west toward the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater on July 8, 2023, the 847th Martian day, or sol, of NASA's Perseverance rover mission. The rover's Mastcam-Z instrument captured the images when Perseverance was about halfway through a boulder field that was 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) wide. Arizona State University leads the operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, on the design, fabrication, testing, and operation of the cameras, and in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen on the design, fabrication, and testing of the calibration targets. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to colle
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Absorbtion Spectra for Hydrogen
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An engraving depicting the baking of large, flat leaves in a farm oven house. These were baked every three or four weeks and were made of a mixture of rye, wheat and maize, and were unsalted. Dated 19th century
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Propane hydrocarbon molecule skeletal formula Vector Image
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One of NASA's twin MarCO spacecraft took this image of Mars on October 2. This is the first time a CubeSat -- a kind of low-cost, briefcase-sized spacecraft -- has done so. The image was taken as a test of exposure settings. The MarCO mission, led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, hopes to produce more images as the CubeSats approach Mars ahead of Nov. 26. That's when they'll demonstrate their communications capabilities while NASA's InSight spacecraft attempts to land (InSight won't rely on them, however; NASA's Mars orbiters will be relaying the spacecraft's data back to Earth). A wide-angle camera on top of MarCO-B produced the image of Mars. The camera looks straight up from the deck of the CubeSat. Parts related to the spacecraft's high-gain antenna are visible on either side of the image. Mars appears as a small red dot at the right of the image. In order to take the image, the team had to program the CubeSat to rotate in space so that the deck of its b
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New Cydonia Picture
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This stereo view shows the landscape surrounding NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at the edge of 'Erebus Crater.' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.exampel on green filter.
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The streak of a comet's tail appears near the Sun, which is blocked by a blue disk in this LASCO C3 coronagraph taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The white circle represents the size and position of the Sun. Nearly all of the sungrazers observed by SOHO are members of the same group (the Kreutz group), the remains of a single, parent comet that broke up some centuries ago.
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The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. These false color images may reveal subtle variations of the surface not easily identified in a single band image. Today's false color image shows the edge of the polar cap and Argentea Planum. Orbit Number 59842 Latitude -83.5585 Longitude 359.691 Instrument VIS Captured 2015-06-11 02 50
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ISS043182398 (05/08/2015) --- Another view of the northern African Great Sand Sea, Libyan Desert and western Egypt with orange parallel dunes taken on May 8th 2015 by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly on the International Space Station.
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.gråskala.
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as teaching material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology 1948-1958. For with info: see the photographic manual of Helmer Bäckström Nature and Culture 1958-59. Other revised edition. Cape. page 127 Addidtiv and substractive color mix p. 949 and the following.
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Microscopic view of Coronavirus, virus strain model of MERS-Cov and coronavirus with text on BLURRED MEDICAL BACKGROUND, dangerous flu strain cases as a pandemic medical health risk concept
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A750139 U12E DINING CAR SIDE PIPE JOHN ALLEN (PROJECT ENGINEER) FEB 4 75EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/4/1975 ALLEN, JOHN; DINING CAR; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; MARKING; NEUTRONS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SIDE PIPE; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; DINING CAR-NEUTRON WHEELS historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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NASA's CloudSat image of a horizontal cross-section of a polar night storm near Antarctica.
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Albumin paper stereo photograph by Negretti & Zambra from circa 1860 showing the sculpture group 'Hylas and the Nymphs' in Crystal Palace, London, capturing the figures and display context.
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Albumin paper stereo photograph by Negretti & Zambra from circa 1860 showing the Andromeda sculpture in Crystal Palace, London, capturing the figure and display setting.
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Albumin paper stereo photograph by Negretti & Zambra from circa 1860 showing the sculpture group 'Three Graces' in Crystal Palace, London, capturing classical figures and exhibition context.
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Aerial balloon photograph of the CIBA chemical works on the Rhine and the adjacent Horburggottesacker in Basel-Kleinhueningen, captured around 1900 on collodion paper.
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Silver gelatin photograph showing the magnification laboratory at the Graphic Teaching and Experimental Institution, depicting optical instruments, worktables, and laboratory layout, dated 1950-1960.
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