--- title: "NASA Integration" description: "Access NASA's open APIs for astronomy imagery, Mars rover photos, near-Earth object tracking, full-disc Earth imagery, Landsat imagery, space-weather events, and the NASA Image and Video Library." url: https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/nasa date_modified: 2026-08-07T17:20:23-07:00 --- # NASA [Analytics & Data](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/category/analytics-data) Access NASA's open APIs for astronomy imagery, Mars rover photos, near-Earth object tracking, full-disc Earth imagery, Landsat imagery, space-weather events, and the NASA Image and Video Library. [Verified](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/verified "What does verified mean?") · 15 actions · API key · available [NASA website](https://api.nasa.gov/) · [Platform Documentation](https://api.nasa.gov) · Capability data verified 2026-07-14 1. A scheduled check fires for near-Earth object activity 2. Agent pulls close approaches with Get Asteroids Feed 3. Agent reads each object's size, miss distance, and hazard flag 4. Agent flags any object marked potentially hazardous 5. Agent confirms the flagged object against the source detail 6. Agent drafts a public-channel alert with the object's data 7. Any public-facing hazard alert waits for an editor's approval ## What This Integration Enables The NASA connector lets agents read NASA's open data and act on it inside a workflow. Agents fetch the Astronomy Picture of the Day, Mars rover photos and manifests, near-Earth object feeds and lookups, EPIC full-disc Earth imagery, Landsat Earth imagery, and DONKI space-weather events for coronal mass ejections, geomagnetic storms, and solar flares. Search NASA Images queries the media library for images, video, or audio. Because the media search uses a separate endpoint, it needs no key. The connector supplies the data; the surrounding flow turns it into a post, an alert, or a research archive a human signs off on. ### Without FlowRunner **Feeds checked by hand**: Someone visits a NASA page when they remember to **Content assembled manually**: Daily imagery and captions are copied over one post at a time **Events noticed late**: A space-weather event or close approach gets seen after it matters ### With FlowRunner **Feeds read on a schedule**: The agent pulls imagery, events, and tracking data automatically **Content drafted for review**: Daily posts arrive assembled and ready for a human to approve **Events surfaced in time**: Hazard flags and space-weather events become exceptions a person sees now ## Use Case Scenarios ### Daily Astronomy Post A content team posts NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day to a channel or newsletter. Each morning the agent calls Get APOD, assembles the title, explanation, and image URL, and drafts the post. The draft lands ready for a person to glance at and approve, so the daily habit runs without anyone copying and pasting from a web page. ### Near-Earth Object Watch A monitoring agent tracks asteroid close approaches. It calls Get Asteroids Feed over a rolling window and reads each object's size, miss distance, and hazard flag. Objects that clear the thresholds are logged for the record. An object marked potentially hazardous becomes an exception the agent surfaces with its full data, so a person decides whether and how to communicate it. ### Space-Weather Dashboard An operations agent watches for space-weather events that affect satellite or communications infrastructure. It calls Get Solar Flares, Get CMEs, and Get Geomagnetic Storms on a schedule and detects significant events. When one crosses the alert bar, the agent drafts a summary for the operations channel so the team can assess the impact rather than learning about it downstream. ## Human-in-Loop Highlight Reading the feed is harmless. Publishing to an audience is not, especially when the message carries the word hazardous. When Get Asteroids Feed returns an object marked potentially hazardous, the agent does not post an alert on its own. It assembles the object's name, size, miss distance, and approach date, drafts the notice, and routes to the editor through their channel: "The feed flags asteroid 2026 QX as potentially hazardous, closest approach in nine days at a comfortable miss distance. Post the drafted alert to the public channel, or hold it?" This is [human-in-the-loop](https://flowrunner.ai/concepts/human-in-the-loop) at the point where a data flag would become a public statement: the agent handles the reading and the drafting, and a person owns what the organization actually says. Agent processes routinely Detects exception requiring judgment Clear match Continues automatically Ambiguous Routes to human via preferred channel Human decides Agent resumes with decision ## Agent Capabilities 15 actions ### Astronomy Picture of the Day 1 - **Get APOD** Retrieve NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day with its title and explanation. ### Mars Rover Photos 3 - **Get Latest Photos** Fetch the most recent photos from a Mars rover. - **Get Mars Rover Photos** Fetch Mars rover photos filtered by sol or Earth date and camera. - **Get Rover Manifest** Retrieve the mission manifest for a Mars rover. ### Asteroids NeoWs 3 - **Browse Asteroids** Browse the near-Earth object dataset. - **Get Asteroids Feed** List near-Earth object close approaches over a date range with size, miss distance, and hazard flags. - **Lookup Asteroid** Look up a single near-Earth object by id. ### EPIC Earth Imagery 2 - **Get EPIC Enhanced** Retrieve enhanced-color full-disc Earth imagery from EPIC. - **Get EPIC Natural** Retrieve natural-color full-disc Earth imagery from EPIC. ### Earth 2 - **Get Earth Assets** List available Landsat Earth imagery assets for a location. - **Get Earth Imagery** Retrieve a Landsat Earth image for a location and date. ### DONKI Space Weather 3 - **Get CMEs** Retrieve coronal mass ejection events from the DONKI space-weather feed. - **Get Geomagnetic Storms** Retrieve geomagnetic storm events from DONKI. - **Get Solar Flares** Retrieve solar flare events from DONKI. ### Image Library 1 - **Search NASA Images** Search NASA's Image and Video Library for images, video, or audio matching a topic. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What can FlowRunner do with NASA? FlowRunner agents can run Get APOD, Get Latest Photos, and Get Mars Rover Photos in NASA, plus 12 more actions. ### Does connecting NASA to FlowRunner require OAuth? No. NASA connects to FlowRunner with an API key, no OAuth flow required. ### Can NASA trigger a FlowRunner workflow automatically? NASA doesn't currently expose triggers in FlowRunner. It connects as an action step inside workflows started by another trigger. **Work at NASA?** This integration exposes NASA to AI agents on every FlowRunner plan, including through MCP, at no cost to you. [See what FlowRunner offers integration partners](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/partners), including how to keep this page current. --- Markdown version of https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/nasa. Site index: https://flowrunner.ai/llms.txt