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Does NASA make publicly available real images of missions in an organized manner? What I mean is: Say I'm looking for the images taken by New Horizons - a simple list of the images in chronological order. Even if it's not a comprehensive list, at least all of those made publicly available. Does that exist?

To be clear - I'm not interested in "artist concept". On the other hand - "false color" pictures of infrared etc. are fine.

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    $\begingroup$ Something like this? pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter $\endgroup$
    – called2voyage ♦
    Jul 16, 2015 at 18:59
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    $\begingroup$ Or this? mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/opportunity.html $\endgroup$
    – Wayfaring Stranger
    Jul 16, 2015 at 19:11
  • $\begingroup$ @called2voyage Yes. Thanks! (Is there a common starting point for all of those lists like yours and the other comment here?) $\endgroup$
    – ispiro
    Jul 16, 2015 at 20:30
  • $\begingroup$ @WayfaringStranger See previous comment. $\endgroup$
    – ispiro
    Jul 16, 2015 at 20:30
  • $\begingroup$ Honestly, I just used google. You can also try googling with "site:nasa.gov" in your search query to get more refined results. $\endgroup$
    – called2voyage ♦
    Jul 16, 2015 at 20:38

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NASA mission data is archived at a handful of NASA archives. If you do not know which archive a data set is in, then you can search the Master Catalog at the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDC). The main astrophysics archives are:

HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center)

IRSA (Infrared Science Archives)

LAMBDA (Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis)

and MAST (Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes)

Planetary/Solar System Data are at the various Nodes of the PDS. NSSDC holds data from many of the older missions that predate these archives.

New Horizons data is being archived at the Small Bodies Node of PDS. But, it usually takes several months for data to get into these archives. So, if you are looking for very current images, you have to rely on what the mission team has put up on its web site. That is at their discretion.

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