The blue dot circled in this photo is NASA's Curiosity rover, which was photographed June 5 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/University of Arizona)

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 dwarfed by the harsh terrain.

The car-sized vehicle is usually a more metallic colorbut appears brighter andbluer than it would to the human eye because HiRISE uses three wavelength bands, 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 while it monitors Mt. Sharp's landscape for erosion and other changes.