Cape Verde (Mars)

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This article is about a surface feature on Mars. For the nation, see Cape Verde.
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.
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.

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.[1]

Cape Verde and neighboring Cabo Frio are named after places visited on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world by the ship Victoria.[2]

Close-up of Cape Verde.
Close-up of Cape Verde.
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at the rim of Victoria Crater as photographed from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at the rim of Victoria Crater as photographed from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mars Exploration Rover Mission: All Opportunity Updates
  2. ^ Mission Updates by Steve Squyers, including reference on naming
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