Can I use NASA visualisations commercially?

Visualisations produced by NASA are public domain in the US. Credit NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. They show data, not people or logos, so they are among the easiest NASA footage to use in commercial work.

Are visualisations accurate enough for a documentary?

They are made by scientists and visualisers from measured or simulated data, and each page describes its source. Say on screen when something is a visualisation rather than camera footage.

Space and science footage

NASA data visualisations and science animations

Free science visualisations from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio and others: weather, oceans, the Sun and Moon, often 4K at 60 fps.

Clips: 36 clips
Sources: from 3 sources
1080p or better: 10 in 1080p or better
Cleared for commercial use: 26 cleared for commercial use
Editorial use only: 23 editorial-only
Direct downloads: 36 with direct download
Updated: October 28, 2026

Search live for “science”Use it from code or an agent

Picked automatically from a live search of 23 sites and refreshed daily. Hover a clip to preview it; posters and previews load straight from the source, never through this site. Each clip belongs to its creator: check its licence on the source page before you publish.

Science you can watch

NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, at Goddard Space Flight Center, has published about ten thousand pages of visualisations: hurricanes forming, sea surface temperatures shifting with the seasons, the Sun’s corona, the Moon’s terrain from orbit, the planets and their moons. Many come as 1080p and 4K MP4 files at 30 or 60 frames per second, and some have vertical versions for phones.

As b-roll and backgrounds

Visualisations explain without words, which makes them strong cutaways in science and climate videos, and their slow, colourful motion makes them excellent backgrounds for titles and talks. Because they contain no people or insignia, they don’t carry the editorial flag that other NASA footage does. Some SVS search results arrive without a poster: open them and the player loads their files.

Where these come from

Licences

NASA media (public domain in the US): 13
Public domain: 11
CC BY 4.0: 6
CC BY-SA 4.0: 3
CC0 1.0: 2
CC BY 3.0: 1

CC0 and public domain: commercial use, no credit needed. CC BY and NASA media need a credit line; editorial clips are not for ads. Video licences explained

Guides

From code or an agent

The same search over the REST API:

curl "https://video.shep.bot/v1/search?q=science&category=science&style=visualization"

Or give your AI agent the MCP server https://video.shep.bot/mcp and ask for “science”. Setup

Questions

Can I use NASA visualisations commercially?: Visualisations produced by NASA are public domain in the US. Credit NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. They show data, not people or logos, so they are among the easiest NASA footage to use in commercial work.
Are visualisations accurate enough for a documentary?: They are made by scientists and visualisers from measured or simulated data, and each page describes its source. Say on screen when something is a visualisation rather than camera footage.

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