As it went about its mission to catalog the landscape of the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured a familiar, if tiny, sight – NASA's Curiosity rover.

A photo taken June 5 by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) aboard the Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the rover as a blue dot dwarfed by the harsh terrain.

The car-sized vehicle is usually a more metallic color but appears brighter and bluer than it would to the human eye because HiRISE uses three wavelength bands to photograph the surface of Mars, according to the New York Times.

The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mount Sharp, a mountain situated inside a crater, since 2012.

It shows up in the Reconnaissance Orbiter's photos every three months or so while it monitors Mt. Sharp's landscape for erosion and other changes.