China has released the first set of 'selfies' taken by Tianwen-1, the Chinese spacecraft currently travelling towards the Red Planet as part of the country's first Mars exploration. The photos were captured by a 680-gram camera installed on the outer wall of Tianwen-1 after the probe released the tiny device into space. The unmanned space probe is due to arrive on the Red Planet next February after a seven-month, 34-million-mile voyage. The images released by the Chinese authorities on Thursday were the first set of 'selfies' taken by the unmanned space probe. This is an illustration of what the Tianwen-1 rover could look like when it lands on Mars.

Source: Daily Mail October 01, 2020 13:32 UTC