Cape Verde (Mars)

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This article is about a suface feature on Mars. There is also the country Cape Verde.

Cape Verde.

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 mosiac 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]

The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at the rim of Victoria Crater as photographed from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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1. ^ http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status_opportunityAll.html#sol968

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