The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is helping make its fellow NASA space traveler, the InSight Lander, useful with its photos of the 'dead' robot.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been studying the surface of the Red Planet since 2006, caught a glimpse of another NASA mission on the ground.

People might assume the search for life on Mars ended when NASA's first rovers sent back images of the planet's barren, inhospitable surface. However, as scientists broaden their understanding of the extreme conditions in which life can flourish here on Earth—and expand their notions of what extraterrestrial life might look like—the search for life on Mars continues.

NASA and the European Space Agency will search together for signs of life on Mars, the U.S. space administration announced Thursday.