Support This Image Library

Space Images

The Bruce Murray Space Image Library is a unique collection – recent and past photos and videos from the world’s space agencies, artwork, diagrams, and amateur-processed space images. Bruce Murray, Planetary Society cofounder and emeritus director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, insisted that planetary missions take photos for the public as well as for scientists. Bruce literally helped change our picture of the solar system.

Browse by clicking on an icon, then sort by date and keywords. Look at pictures taken of a place or look at pictures taken from a place. Videos are marked with a blue arrow. Or, take a remarkable journey through space with images created by amateurs. The main thing is, enjoy!

Go to Amateur Images

Rosetta flies by an asteroid

Rosetta approaches Lutetia (animation)

Farewell, Lutetia

Asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of August 2014, in color, excepting Vesta

Ceres compared to all asteroids visited as of January 2015

Rosetta flyby of asteroid Lutetia

Approaching Lutetia

Names on Lutetia

Asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of December 2012, in color, excepting Vesta [DEPRECATED]

All asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of August 2014, in color, albedo linearly scaled

A full view of Lutetia from Rosetta

Lutetia's crescent, in color

Lutetia in stereo (3D anaglyph)

Lutetia in cross-eyed stereo

Lutetia in natural color

Lutetia and Saturn, in color

Lutetia in color

Lutetia in sight