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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!

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Mercury Solar Transit - May 9, 2016

Mercury and Venus from MESSENGER

Scale comparison of Vesta and Ceres

Artist’s concept of MESSENGER at Mercury

Gullies in the rim of a volcanic vent, Copland crater, Mercury

Shadows within shadows: Dark material on the floor of a crater in Mercury's high north

Very young graben on Mercury

Young hollows on Scarlatti's peak ring

Scarlatti basin on Mercury

Degas Crater Central Peaks

Degas' Edge

Blue Degas

Degas on the Horizon

MESSENGER buzzes Mercury's north polar region

The atmospheres of the Solar System

Colorful Sander and Munch craters in the Caloris basin, Mercury

Mercury's Edge

Every round object in the solar system under 10,000 kilometers in diameter, to scale [DEPRECATED]

Rotating Mercury Map

Rotating Sun in Three Wavelengths

Hollow close-up

MESSENGER view of the crater Zeami

Mariner view of the crater Zeami

Half-hollowed crater

Hollows and pits in Lermontov crater

Hollows exposed in a small Mercury crater wall

Spectacular volcanic features on Mercury

Mercury Map after MESSENGER's first solar day

Apollodorus and Pantheon Fossae

Apollodorus Close-Up

Caloris in Color

A New Angle on Pantheon Fossae

Mercury transits the EUVI field on the NASA STEREO-A satellite

Mercury transiting the Sun in multiple wavelengths

ISON approaches the Sun as seen from STEREO-A (Nov 21-26, 2013)

ISON, Encke, Mercury, and Home

A pack of planets

High resolution color view of de Graft Crater, Mercury

First simultaneous measurement of sodium and calcium in Mercury's exosphere

At the Edge of Darkness

Debussy

Flying Over Mercury

Map of Mercury after MESSENGER's third flyby

MESSENGER's first image from Mercury orbit

First color image from Mercury orbit

MESSENGER view of terrain near Mercury's north pole

Map of the H-9 quadrangle of Mercury

Terra Cognita