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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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JunoCam tracks Jupiter's moons in the "Marble Movie"

Io over Jupiter's clouds

Juno approaches its first orbital perijove

JunoCam's "Marble Movie" frames, July 10-August 21, 2016

Artist's impression of planet Proxima Centauri b

Artist's impression of the surface of planet Proxima Centauri b

Artist’s concept of an astronaut to scale with Murray buttes, Curiosity sol 1419

Artist’s concept of an astronaut to scale with Murray buttes, Mount Sharp in the background, Curiosity sol 1419

Artist’s concept of an astronaut to scale with Murray buttes, Curiosity sol 1432

Artist’s concept of an astronaut to scale with Murray buttes, Curiosity sol 1436

Ares I-X test flight

Confirmation hearing

Sunset on the shuttle program

The senator and the future administrator

OSIRIS-REx instruments

Flooded canyons on Titan

Curioisty at "Marimba" drilling target

Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko

Inspecting the inside of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule

Murray Buttes 360-degree panorama, Curiosity sol 1421

Thirteen Curiosity drill holes on Mars

Simulated rover among Murray buttes, Curiosity sol 1421

Bimbe conglomerate or breccia, Curiosity sol 1405

3D route map for Curiosity: Across the Bagnold dune field, sols 1153-1417

JunoCam approach image of Jupiter with Io shadow

Final Juno approach image of Jupiter

Prox-1 thermal camera flight heritage

Prox-1 image capture test

LightSail 2 magnetometer calibration at UCLA IGPP

Breakthrough Starshot

NASA administrator Michael Griffin

Ares I and V

Orion unveiling

Ares I-X assembly

Artist's impression of an ARTEMIS spacecraft near the lunar wake

Asteroid Ryugu from the Very Large Telescope

Venus' clouds in the near-infrared

Murray Buttes, Curiosity sol 1414

The vortex at Saturn's north pole from Cassini

Jupiter's Great Red Spot from Voyager 1

Jupiter's clouds from Voyager 1

Map of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko regions with landing locations

Closeup on a comet's fracture

CRS-9 Dragon draws near

Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

Comet 67P in color

Crew portrait

Final ascent