Cape Verde (Mars)
| File:Opportunity at Victoria Crater from Mars reconnaissance orbiter.jpg The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at the rim of Victoria Crater as photographed from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. | |
| Feature type | cape |
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| Location | Victoria Crater |
| Coordinates | 2°03′S 5°30′W / 2.05°S 5.5°WCoordinates: 2°03′S 5°30′W / 2.05°S 5.5°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
Cape Verde is a large promontory and extremity on the rim of Victoria Crater in Meridiani Planum, an extraterrestrial plain within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched atop this feature in 2006 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.[1]
Cape Verde and neighboring Cabo Frio are named after Cape Verde and Cabo Frio, places visited on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world by the ship Victoria.[2]
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Cape Verde can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this false-color image taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
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Close-up of Cape Verde.
References
- ↑ "Mars Exploration Rover Mission: 2006 Opportunity Updates". Archived from the original on 2013-09-22. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
- ↑ Mission Updates by Steve Squyres, including reference on naming
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