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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An animation of Itokawa from Hayabusa

Deep Impact animation on approach to Tempel 1

Mars and the Sun viewed by SOHO

Ejecta distribution after a modeled impact on Vesta

A model impact onto Vesta

Animation of the Deep Impact into Tempel 1

Surface changes on Tempel 1

Stardust's closeup views of Tempel 1

Spirit forward hazcam animation, sols 2078-2138

Phobos' shadow darkens Mars

Phobos' shadow transits Mars

Animation of Stardust's flyby of Tempel 1

Animation of Kleopatra, Alexhelios, and Cleoselene

Kleopatra, Alexhelios, and Cleoselene

Stardust's flight past Tempel 1 (version 3)

Animation of Stardust's flyby of Wild 2

Phobos and Deimos in Spirit's sky, sol 590

Mutual event of Janus, Epimetheus, and Dione

Phobos and Deimos mutual event from Mars Express

Movie of Phobos and Deimos mutual event, Curiosity sol 351

Five views of the Phoenix lander from HiRISE

Shadows at the Moon's North Pole

Four moons and a ring

Comparison between 1994 and 2002-3 maps of Pluto

May 10, 2013 solar eclipse from Russian satellite Elektro-L

Elektro-L typhoon animation

May 10, 2013 solar eclipse viewed by Elektro-L

Typhoon Jelawat animation by Elektro-L

Elektro-L views Earth's four seasons

Europe from Elektro-L

Earth from Elektro-L, January 2013

Seventeen images of Aegaeon

A Blue Sunset on Mars

Mars moon Phobos eclipse

Advancing dune in Nili Patera, Mars

Rachmaninoff in 3D

Mars Express' shifting orbit

SDO observes its first lunar transit

2010 JL33 seen by Goldstone radio telescope

Deep Impact's comet crash

Tethys and Dione

Saturnian moon Prometheus

Hubble View of Comet ISON

Arecibo radar view of asteroid 1998 QE2 on June 7, 2013

New gully deposit in Naruko Crater, Mars (flicker animation)

Curiosity drills into its second rock, sol 279

Time-lapse video of Goldstone's 70-meter dish tracking a target

Goldstone radar images of asteroid (285263) 1998 QE2