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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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Curiosity sol 613 MAHLI self-portrait: desktop background

Curiosity sol 613 self-portrait animation

I'm a Space Advocate

Hayabusa 2, robotic asteroid explorer

Who stands taller, Pluto or Eris?

Europa Rises

Pluto and its Moons

Opposition surge of Saturn's rings

Quaoar and Weywot

Cassini spies Uranus

Interiors of icy bodies in the solar system (as of 2010)

The 1000-ft Arecibo radio telescope

Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope

Close-up of Phobos from Mars Express

Unusual paper-thin erosion of a rock seen by Curiosity, sol 601

Curiosity at Mount Remarkable from the ground and from orbit, sol 601

Navcam panorama of Mount Remarkable at the Kimberley, including planned drill location, sol 606

Navcam view of the proposed Curiosity Kimberley drill location, sol 609

Zodiacal light at the Moon from LADEE

Gene Cernan's sketch of the sunrise as seen from lunar orbit

Spitzer Space Telescope

Philae CIVA portrait of Rosetta's solar panels, April 14, 2014

Kepler-186f: A Second Earth

Phobos-Grunt imaged in orbit

Scanning electron microscope images of two pieces of Surveyor 3

A conceptual Mars outpost making rocket propellants from the local environment

Pete Conrad at the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, with the Apollo 12 Lunar Module in the background

Curiosity departs Earth

Mars Science Laboratory on its way

Asteroid 2005 YU55

NGC 6960, The Veil Nebula

Sunset behind Gale's western rim, Curiosity sol 587

Horowitz Crater

Martian Avalanche!

Late-afternoon Navcam panorama at the Kimberley, Curiosity sol 593

The top of "Square Top," Curiosity sol 585

Mount Remarkable, the Kimberley, Mars (Curiosity sol 595)

Curiosity takes in the Kimberley, sol 589

3D route map for Curiosity: Detail view of the Kimberley, sols 568-595

Mount Remarkable, the Kimberley, Mars (Curiosity sol 590)

Similarities between Yellowknife Bay and the Kimberley as seen from orbit

Yutu route map (estimated position as of March 23, 2014)

Opportunity deck panorama, sol 3611-3613 (March 22-24, 2014)

Ripples in the Valley

Mastcam-34 panorama of the Kimberley, Curiosity sol 589

Apollo 15 Commander David Scott at the ALSEP station, EVA 2

HiRISE view of Curiosity near Dingo Gap, sol 538

Titan's Lake District