NASA Images available to the public in LUNA

NASA and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, have made available the most comprehensive compilation ever of NASA's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The collection is now available to the public in our new LUNA browser at www.nasaimages.org.

This is the first step in a five-year partnership that will add millions of images and thousands of hours of video and audio content.

The content covers all the diverse activities of America's space program, including imagery from the Apollo moon missions, Hubble Space Telescope views of the universe and experimental aircraft past and present.

Internet Archive is developing the NASA Images project using software donated by Luna Imaging, Inc. and with the generous support of the Kahle-Austin Foundation.

The new LUNA browser supports the creation of unique URL's to specific content. See a Slide Show of Cat's Eye Nebulas. Listen to President Richard Nixon speaking to Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin via telephone, while the two astronauts stand on the Moon's surface. Or, view an artist's animation showing a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disk of planet-building dust. Enjoy!

Insight v6.0 + LUNA released on June 13, 2008

We’ve built a better browser. Introducing LUNA, the new browser for Insight collections.

The Insight Java Client revolutionized the way you worked with media via a desktop application. And now LUNA offers a second revolution: With LUNA collections are more than just page after page of thumbnails. A collection will be a framework for discovery, dynamically working with advanced features and sharing these features with the World Wide Web.

With LUNA, users can perform simple keyword searches as well as more complex structured queries, and control how they view, browse, and organize their results to create Media Groups and presentations. LUNA includes the Web 2.0 tools end users are demanding which enable them to save and share their work by linking and embedding any view, image, group, or presentation. All this and more in a browser !

For more details on the v6.0 + LUNA release, please visit the v6.0 information page.