This image, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on April 8, 2015, captures the space agency’s Mars rover Curiosity cruising through a valley called "Artist's Drive" on the lower slopes of Mount Sharp.

NASA's eagle-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured a view of the space agency's Curiosity rover trundling across the Red Planet.

The new MRO photo was taken by the spacecraft's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment   camera (HiRISE) on April 8. It shows the car-size Curiosity rover cruising through a valley called Artist's Drive in the foothills of Mount Sharp.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona