# NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

> NASA Scientific Visualization Studio as searched by Video Assets Server: About 10k NASA data visualisations and animations: Earth's weather and climate, the Sun, the Moon, planets and galaxies, mostly 1080p and 4K MP4 at 30–60 fps. Public domain, credit NASA's SVS.

- Website: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Best for: About 10k NASA data visualisations and animations: Earth's weather and climate, the Sun, the Moon, planets and galaxies, mostly 1080p and 4K MP4 at 30–60 fps. Public domain, credit NASA's SVS.
- Categories: Space, Science & data, Nature, Backgrounds
- Pricing: free
- Licence: set per clip
- How it is searched: api
- Direct download through Video Assets Server: yes
- Restrict a search to it: `https://video.shep.bot/v1/search?q=...&providers=nasasvs`
- Video listings counted 2026-10-28: 10,601, 10,601 free
- By category: Space 10,601

## What it is

NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov), at Goddard Space Flight Center, publishes about ten thousand pages of visualisations and animations made from scientific data: weather and climate, ocean currents and sea level, the Sun, the Moon's terrain, planets and galaxies. Most pages carry 1080p and 4K MP4s, often at 60 frames per second, and some include vertical versions.

## Best for

Striking, explanation-free motion backgrounds and science b-roll: rotating Earths, hurricanes, solar activity, lunar flyovers, star fields. No people or logos, which makes them easy to use.

## Licence

Produced by NASA and in the public domain in the US. Credit 'NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio'. Because data visualisations show no people or insignia, they are not flagged editorial; a few pages credit partner organisations, so check the page's credits for those.

## How Video Assets Server searches it

Through the studio's JSON API. Its search returns titles and descriptions but no media, so the first results of each search are opened to read their poster, frame size and files (cached for a day); later results get their media when you open them, which is why some cards have no poster.

## Example searches

- [Rotating Earth](https://video.shep.bot/search?q=rotating+earth&providers=nasasvs)
- [Hurricanes](https://video.shep.bot/search?q=hurricane&providers=nasasvs)
- [The Moon](https://video.shep.bot/search?q=moon&providers=nasasvs)
- [Sea surface temperature](https://video.shep.bot/search?q=sea+surface+temperature&providers=nasasvs)
- [Vertical versions](https://video.shep.bot/search?q=vertical&providers=nasasvs)

Guides: https://video.shep.bot/guides/nasa-footage-rules.md, https://video.shep.bot/guides/vertical-video-reels-tiktok-shorts.md

## In these collections

- [Free space footage: planets, stars and missions](https://video.shep.bot/footage/free-space-footage.md): 5 of 33
- [Free ocean footage: waves, beaches and seas](https://video.shep.bot/footage/free-ocean-footage.md): 2 of 20

## Examples

- [Why The Universe Doesn’t Add Up (And How We’re Going To Try To Figure It Out)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15112/) (`nasasvs:15112`, NASA media (public domain in the US))
- [El Niño 2026: Ocean Apparent Visible Wavelength (2025 vs. 2026) – Updated Daily](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5687/) (`nasasvs:5687`, NASA media (public domain in the US))
- [Lucy Mission Trajectory with Jupiter Trojans and Main Belt Asteroids](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5686/) (`nasasvs:5686`, NASA media (public domain in the US))
- [El Niño 2026: Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly (2025 vs. 2026) – Updated Daily](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5688/) (`nasasvs:5688`, NASA media (public domain in the US))
- [NASA FARMFLUX EARTH VENTURE SUBORBITAL-4](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15106/) (`nasasvs:15106`, NASA media (public domain in the US))
- [Artemis II Saw Impact Flashes on the Far Side of the Moon](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15103/) (`nasasvs:15103`, NASA media (public domain in the US))
- [Dying Star Creates Brand New Planet](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15102/) (`nasasvs:15102`, NASA media (public domain in the US))

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