In pics: New Mars images captured by Chinese rover

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Kathmandu: China has released pictures of Mars’ landscape taken by its remote-controlled motorized rover Zhurong.

Three of the photographs, released by the China National Space Administration, showed an image of the Martian soil, one of the landing platforms, and another of the rover Zhurong and the landing platform together, Reuters reported.

The rover is equipped with six instruments: radar, magnetic field detector, composition detector, meteorological measuring instrument, multispectral camera and terrain camera.

Photos: China National Space Administration