Cape Verde (Mars)

Cape Verde (Mars)

Cape Verde is a large promontory on the rim of Victoria Crater in Meridiani Planum, Mars. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched atop this feature to take a true color mosaic of the crater below. Sols 958 to 991 were spent on this cape, including the period of solar conjunction which spanned from sol 970 to sol 984. [ [http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status_opportunityAll.html#sol968 Mars Exploration Rover Mission: All Opportunity Updates ] ]

Cape Verde and neighboring Cabo Frio are named after places visited on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world by the ship "Victoria". [ [http://athena.cornell.edu/news/mubss/ Mission Updates by Steve Squyers] , including reference on naming]

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