Space Images

Our image library is an idiosyncratic collection of recent and past photos, artworks, and diagrams relating to space exploration. They're listed below in the order in which they were added to the library. You can also browse them by the date they were taken (images with no specified date are at the end of that list), or use the quick links at right to filter the list, or visit the full search page. Finally, there is a special amateur space imaging section of this website where all image results are unofficially processed products.

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Gridded map of Ida (simple cylindrical projection)

WISE's near-Earth asteroid survey

Asteroid and Comet Census from WISE

The Great Chelyabinsk Bolide of February 15, 2013

How to tell the size of an asteroid using combined optical and infrared observations

Galileo approaches Gaspra (animation)

Galileo's complete Gaspra image catalog

Gaspra in color

Galileo's complete Ida and Dactyl image catalog

Galileo approaches Ida and Dactyl (animation)

Ida and Dactyl in enhanced color (distant view)

Ida and Dactyl in color

Goldstone radar images of asteroid 2012 DA14

Asteroid 2012 DA14 from Siding Spring Observatory

Itokawa: A sea otter?

Hayabusa's views of Itokawa during three close approaches

Itokawa from 180 degrees longitude

Unofficial place names on Itokawa

Hayabusa's shadow and target marker

Color view of Itokawa

Itokawa

Eros and Itokawa at similar scales

Minerva hopper and Hayabusa's shadow at Itokawa

Hayabusa's shadow on Itokawa

Opposition surge observed by Hayabusa at Itokawa

Muses Sea on Asteroid Itokawa

Oriented gravels on Itokawa near Komaba crater

Hayabusa's approach

Color closeup on Itokawa

South Pole of Itokawa

Itokawa's north polar region

Hayabusa touchdown!

Asteroid Itokawa

Itokawa in color

Hayabusa's target marker released!

Itokawa from 270 degrees longitude

Hayabusa Spots Target Marker

Itokawa rotates under Hyabusa

Hayabusa at Itokawa

Itokawa in color

Itokawa from 90 degrees longitude

Little Woomera, Itokawa

Gaspra in color

Ida with Dactyl in color

Composite image of Toutatis from Chang'E 2 photos

Chang'E 2 images of Toutatis

Feature names on Steins

Dawn's first look at Vesta

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