It is the latest word of such images that officials are hoping will help solve one of the world's great aviation mysteries, after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing with 239 people on board.
The pictures are thought to have been taken close to areas of the Indian Ocean where Australia and China provided satellite photographs of objects that could be debris from MH370.
And an image of solid matter floating in the southern Indian Ocean was released, as seen from a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft searching for the flight.
Meanwhile, it was claimed that police have seized the personal financial records of all 12 crew members of the flight MH370 - including bank statements, mortgage documents and credit card bills.
Mystery: Solid matter is pictured floating in
the southern Indian Ocean, seen from a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2
Orion aircraft yesterday, searching for missing Malaysian Airlines
flight MH370
Emotions: A relative of Chinese passengers
aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines, MH370, expresses her frustration
at the lack of information, to journalists in Beijing
Working: Leading Seaman Luke Horsburgh stands
watch during his duty as Quartermaster on the bridge of the Australian
Navy ship HMAS Success after it arrived in the search area for missing
MH370
Ramped up search: Chinese relatives (centre) of
missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave after a meeting with
airline officials at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing
Binoculars: A Chinese Antarctic exploration team
member aboard Chinese icebreaker Xuelong (Snow Dragon) searches for
missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 over the southern Indian Ocean
Air and sea searches since last Thursday in a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether the objects were from the missing jet have been unsuccessful.
Malaysia's Ministry of Transport said the images had been sent to Australia, which is coordinating the search about 1,550 miles south-west of Perth.
The images could be another clue in the growing mystery over Flight 370, with the search moving from seas off Vietnam when the plane first went missing to areas now not far from the Antarctica.
There, planes and a ship were scrambling today looking for a pallet and other debris to determine whether the objects were from the missing jet.
Distress: Chinese relatives of missing Malaysia
Airlines flight MH370 are pictured during a meeting with airline
officials at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing
Anxious wait: A relative of a passenger onboard MH370 answers media questions at the Lido Hotel in Beijing
Wingwalker: Aircrew walk on the wing of a
Japanese Air Force AP-3C Orion after it landed at RAAF Pearce Base to
join the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370
Working together: Disaster relief team leader
Masahiko Kobayashi (left) greets Japanese air force Commander Hidetsugu
Iwanasa after his AP-3C Orion landed at RAAF Pearce Base in Perth to
join the search for MH370
Possible sighting: A photo released by Chinese
broadcaster CCTV shows a new satellite image of a large floating object
in the Indian Ocean that could be related to missing Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370
Diagrams: Mike Barton (right), Rescue
Coordination Chief, shows Australian Deputy Prime minister Warren Truss
(left), maps of the Indian Ocean search area for the missing Malaysian
Airlines aircraft
The pallet was spotted by a search
plane yesterday, but has not been closely examined. Wooden pallets are
commonly used in shipping, but can also be used in cargo containers
carried on planes.
'Today is really a visual search again, and visual searches take some time. They can be difficult'
John Young, Australian Maritime Safety Authority
John Young, Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Mike Barton, chief of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's rescue coordination centre, told reporters in Canberra that the wooden pallet was spotted by a search aircraft yesterday.
He added that it was surrounded by several other objects, including what appeared to be strapping belts of different colours.
A New Zealand P3 Orion military plane was then sent to find it but failed, he said.
Squadron leader Brett McKenzie takes notes of
other search aircraft on the windshield of a Royal New Zealand Air Force
P-3K2 Orion aircraft searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight
MH370 over the southern Indian Ocean
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says
'three significant developments' have offered 'increasing hope' of
finding MH370, as the search continues in the southern Indian Ocean
A new hope: Malaysian Transport Minister
Hishammuddin Hussein holds up the note on which he was passed the
information about the Chinese satellite sighting in the southern Indian
Ocean
Hand-written: A close up of the note passed to Mr Hussein. It is understood that the '30m' figure is incorrect
Radar specialists are pictured aboard a Royal
New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft searching for missing
Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 over the southern Indian Ocean
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