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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Working at Cape York

Comet landscape

A tour around Block Island

Yuma

Luis de Torres brushed

Hills of Endeavour

Rippled terrain in 3-D

Spirit still shining at Troy

Oileán Ruaidh in living Martian color (Opportunity sol 2371)

Chocolate Hills, Opportunity sol 2164

Seven Years of Roving Mars

Homestake, Opportunity sol 2769

Kirkland Lake

On The Beach

Comparing Opportunity raw images to PDS versions

How big is Santa Maria?

Ridout, Opportunity sol 2681

Rodrigo de Escobar (Opportunity sol 2549)

Gusev crater and Phobos' shadow from Mars Express

The last bedrock, Opportunity sol 2668

Snow Queen on sols 47 and 73

Santa Maria vs Victoria Crater

Portrait of Marquette, Opportunity sol 2088

Two Explorers

Mackinac

Cape Tribulation, Opportunity sol 2679

Chocolate Hills, Opportunity sol 2147

Marquette Island, Opportunity sol 2087

Unalaska, Opportunity sol 2553

Columbus' Ghost

Spirit R.I.P.

Mac attack

The goal: orbital view of Opportunity's arrival point on the rim of Endeavour crater

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Opportunity Microscopic Imager mosaic, sol 3064: spherules