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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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Mutual event of Janus and Epimetheus

First Light for Kepler

Janus on August 25, 1981

Koronas-Foton

Twin STEREO Spacecraft

Mars Express Art

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) at Mars

Hayabusa (MUSES-C)

SOHO's view of the Sun and Jupiter, April 5, 2011

Red-blue anaglyph of a chain of lunar craters

Blink animation of Hartley 2's jets

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

Mimas rotating

LADEE on the way to the Moon

Voyager 1 as seen by the Very Long Baseline Array, February 21, 2013

Bird's eye view of Titan's Land of Lakes

Valley networks as seen by Viking

View down to Darwin from Panorama Point, Curiosity sol 387

At the Edge of Darkness

Debussy

Flying Over Mercury

Mars Science Laboratory turns, rolls, climbs a rock

Mars Science Laboratory wheels roll over rocks

Mars Science Laboratory rolls over a large rock (part 2)

Mars Science Laboratory rolls over a large rock (part 1)

Curiosity undergoing environmental testing

MSL Mobility System Engineer Jaime Waydo

Stardust's Annefrank encounter

Saturn's storm from Hubble

Layered blocks in Aristarchus

Zooming in on Aristarchus' layers

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

LADEE heads to the Moon aboard Minotaur V

Epimetheus on March 30, 2005

Opportunity approaches Solander Point (animation)

Mike Massimino on a spacewalk, May 17, 2009

Mariner 6 view of chaos terrain on Mars

Mariner 6 approaches Mars: "far-encounter" images

The many faces of Io

Io on Galileo orbit I32

Maui, Monan, and Ah Peku Paterae, Io

A base map for Opportunity's travels

Tohil Mons and Radegast Patera

Galileo's color views of the icy satellites

Seasonal developments of the dark markings on Mars, 1907-1956