NASA has released new pictures captured by the Perseverance rover after its dramatic touchdown on Mars.

Sharing the never-before-seen photos and footage, an engineer said: "This really is the surface of an alien world - and we've just arrived."

The never-before-seen photos and footage come days after the US space agency shared colour pictures of the robot's landing - breathtaking images that will go down in history with the likes of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon.

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