Nasa has released images captured by the Psyche spacecraft during its recent flyby of Mars. The photos were taken as the probe used the planet's gravity to adjust its trajectory toward the asteroid 16 Psyche.
The spacecraft passed within 2,800 miles of the Martian surface. One image shows the 290-mile-wide Huygens double-ring crater, with colors enhanced to highlight differences in dust, sand and bedrock. Another captures the bright water ice fields at the south pole, while a third depicts a crescent Mars reflecting sunlight through its atmosphere as the probe approached from afar.