Bruce C. Murray dies at 81; former director of JPL

Bruce C. Murray's push to study the images of planetary surfaces played a major role in keeping NASA's exploration program alive.Although most of his fellow space scientists scoffed at the idea, Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Bruce C. Murray insisted that a picture of a planet's surface was worth a thousand words — or at least as much as the measurements of magnetic fields and particle concentrations that his colleagues favored in the early days of planetary exploration in the 1960s.

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