Amateur Space Images

Imagine diving into digital archives, excavating previously unappreciated images from other worlds, and electronically piecing them together to present new pictures to our world.  That’s what The Planetary Society, in partnership with UnmannedSpaceflight.com, is pleased to host – an archive of amateur-processed space images.

Browse by clicking on an icon, then sort by date and keywords.  Or look at images by contributor and consider submitting your own.

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Scale comparison of comets visited by spacecraft as of 2014

Aricia Tholus, Vesta

3D view of Aricia Tholus, Vesta

Curiosity drives over a ripple, sol 683

Standing on Venus with Venera 9

Standing on Venus with Venera 10

Prometheus, shaper of the F ring

Prometheus and Pandora and the F ring

Saturn's innermost moons: Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, and Mimas, to scale

Curiosity route map: Wide view: comparing "rapid transit" and "safe transit" routes

3D route map for Curiosity: Along the dunes to the edge of Murray Buttes, sols 649 and following

Curiosity wheel survey, sol 660

Pillinger Point

Lebanon meteorite, Curiosity sol 640

Outcrop southeast of the Kimberley, Curiosity sol 631

Deep Impact's final observations: Comet ISON

Curiosity at the north edge of the Kimberley, sol 581

Before & After: Colorizing a higher-resolution monochrome image with lower-resolution color data

Base map for Curiosity traverse within Gale Crater: CTX colorized with HRSC, 10 m/pixel

High Definition Earth Viewing experiment rides across Earth's terminator on ISS

Before & after: Opportunity's deck gets cleaned on Endeavour's rim

Before & after: Curiosity at Rocknest and the Kimberley

Windjana drill hole at night, Curiosity sol 628

Stephen site before and after ChemCam zapping, sols 610 and 627

Windjana site after drilling, Curiosity sol 627

Windjana in the rear view, Curiosity sol 630

Polar Serenity

Hand Lens Landscape

Curiosity sol 613 MAHLI self-portrait: component images

Curiosity sol 613 MAHLI self-portrait: desktop background

Curiosity sol 613 self-portrait animation

Cassini spies Uranus

Curiosity at Mount Remarkable from the ground and from orbit, sol 601

Navcam panorama of Mount Remarkable at the Kimberley, including planned drill location, sol 606

Asteroid 2005 YU55

Sunset behind Gale's western rim, Curiosity sol 587

Late-afternoon Navcam panorama at the Kimberley, Curiosity sol 593

Mount Remarkable, the Kimberley, Mars (Curiosity sol 595)

The top of "Square Top," Curiosity sol 585

Curiosity takes in the Kimberley, sol 589

3D route map for Curiosity: Detail view of the Kimberley, sols 568-595

Mount Remarkable, the Kimberley, Mars (Curiosity sol 590)

Opportunity deck panorama, sol 3611-3613 (March 22-24, 2014)

Mastcam-34 panorama of the Kimberley, Curiosity sol 589

Navcam panorama of the Kimberley science stop from the north, Curiosity sol 581

The north edge of Kimberley, Curiosity sol 580

Chemcam RMI mosaic of cross section of Kimberley outcrop from the north, Curiosity sol 576

Postcard from Curiosity sol 571: low light over a butte and tracks