By Staff Reporter (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Sep 27, 2013 10:43 AM EDT

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched its official account on the social network Instagram, where it will share pictures and videos related to its missions, experiments and space, aeronautics and astrophysics projects.

NASA already has a Twitter official account (@ NASA) which has more than four million followers and where it shared over 27,000 tweets that include links to pictures and videos.

With its new Instagram account, NASA seeks to get closer to the space and science fans.

NASA already has 160,730 followers, a few days after its debut on Instagram. Here are some of the pics you can see on its Instagram account: