Category:European Space Agency - Wikimedia Commons

The ESA Portal Multimedia Gallery contains images and videos used throughout the ESA Portal. The images are offered in the Gallery in the highest resolution available.

Most images have been released publicly from ESA. You may use ESA images or videos for educational or informational purposes. The publicly released ESA images may be reproduced without fee, on the following conditions:

• Credit ESA as the source of the images:

Examples: Photo: ESA; Photo: ESA/Cluster

• ESA images may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by ESA or any ESA employee of a commercial product, process or service, or used in any other manner that might mislead.
• If an image includes an identifiable person, using that image for commercial purposes may infringe that person‘s right of privacy, and separate permission should be obtained from the individual.

If these images are to be used in advertising or any commercial promotion, layout and copy must be submitted to ESA beforehand for approval to: ESA Multimedia multimedia@esa.int

ESA images under Creative Commons licence

Since 2014 ESA releases a growing number of images, videos and other contents under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) Licence:

Where expressly stated, images, videos or other ESA works are covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence. The user is allowed to reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate and publicly perform this publication, without explicit permission, provided that the content is accompanied by an acknowledgement that the source is duly credited (Examples: “Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0”, “ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO”, “ESA/Photographer’s name, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO”), a direct link to the licence text is provided and that it is clearly indicated if changes were made to the original content. Adaptation/translation/derivatives must be distributed under the same licence terms as this publication. The user must not give any suggestion that ESA necessarily endorses the modifications that you have made. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material. Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from ESA. To view a copy of this license, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/

HEADS-UP: Images created by ESA are not automatically in the public domain or freely licensed Most ESA images are free only for educational and non-commercial use. They are thus not free enough for Commons. Images created by the ESA should be uploaded to Commons only if they are explicitly marked as PD or CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO by ESA. (From the ESA FAQ: "You may freely use the images you find on our site, as long as it is not for commercial use. You may not modify the images.". Discussion on Commons and Wikipedia: [1], [2], Commons:Deletion requests/Archive/2005/04#Again ESA images, Commons talk:Copyright tags/Archive 1#ESA Licenses)