NASA's Curiosity Mars rover looks so small and alone in this amazing new photo

So it seems only right that a similarly sentimental picture of NASA's Curiosity rover appears to show another pale blue dot in action--thanks to exaggerated color, anyway. The intrepid space explorer, which will celebrate its fifth anniversary on Mars in August, is roughly the size of a car. But the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is nearly 200 miles above the red planet's surface, so Curiosity looks oh-so-smol. For some of you, this may just look like a really-not-great photo of a space robot. After all, we see close-up selfies of Curiosity all the time.