NASA Joins Instagram: See Images of Earth and Beyond

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA is creating its own official account profile in the photo and video-sharing social media, Instagram. This will give its fans an amazing and extraordinary tour through the agency’s breathtaking images of the Earth and beyond.

According to Lauren Worley, NASA's press secretary in a press release, the space agency is continuously looking for ways to amplify its social media presence which will fulfill their goals of narrating NASA's discoveries and explorations. Instagram users are ardent and avid for novel, fresh and thrilling images. Thus, NASA is excited about engaging with Instagrammers to showcase some of the world's most captivating photos taken from and off our planet.

The NASA profile will be offering an exhaustive view of the agency including fresh and historic photos and recordings of astrophysics, aeronautics, human spaceflight, and Earth science, and many more.

Among its first posts will be exhibiting the designated launch of NASA's LADEE or Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer on Friday at 11.27 P.M. from its Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island in Virginia.

A robotic research operation, LADEE will circumnavigate the moon and amass comprehensive data on the composition and structure of the flimsy atmosphere in the moon and find out if dust particles are being propelled into its sky. With Instagram, NASA can post its monumental lunar photos and real-time images from its launch facility prior and throughout the scheduled takeoff.

Instagram will allow NASA to beef up its already strong presence in the multitude of social media applications. The aeronautics agency also has its accounts with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Foursquare, Flickr, Reddit, and more. All these profiles engage the public and inspire them with the agency's extraordinary content.