14 DAY TRIAL // NASA's Curiosity rover left Earth towards the end of November 2011 and landed in Mars' Gale Crater just a few months later, in August 2012.
The robotic Mars explorer has since been busy exploring local landscapes, looking to unravel the geology of the Red Planet, maybe even find proof of alien life.
The Curiosity rover might think that it is all alone on Mars, with nobody to keep a watchful eye over it, but as it turns out, this isn't the case.
On the contrary, the Mars Orbiter spacecraft, which reached the Red Planet in last year's September, has made it a habit of stalking the rover and snapping photos of it.
The latest image delivered by the spacecraft, available next to this article, shows Curiosity resting in a valley not far from Mars' Mount Sharp, Phys Org informs.
The rover is the odd-looking white dot visible at the center of the image. The view might not be impressive, but the Mars Orbiter has a very good excuse for delivering such an picture.
Thus, astronomers say that this view of the Curiosity rover idling on the surface of Mars was taken from an altitude of about 187 miles (300 kilometers).
The reason the tracks left by the rover while journeying to this location are not visible is either because winds destroyed them or because the underlying sand disturbed by Curiosity has the same color as the planet's surface.
