This article is about a suface feature on Mars. For the nation, see Cape Verde.
Cape Verde.
Cape Verde is a large promontory on the rim of Victoria Crater in Meridiani Planum, Mars. The Mars Exploration RoverOpportunity 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] Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 229 pixelsFull resolution (3536 × 1012 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 229 pixelsFull resolution (3536 × 1012 pixel, file size: 2. ... Victoria Crater is an impact crater located at 5. ... Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity looks southwest across Meridiani Planum; the Rovers discarded backshell and parachute are visible in the distance Hematite deposits in Meridiani Planum mapped from orbit, with Opportunity rover landing site ellipse Meridiani Planum is a plain located 2 degrees south of Mars equator, in the westernmost... Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... Artists Concept of Rover on Mars (credit: Maas Digital LLC) NASAs Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission is an ongoing robotic mission of exploring Mars, that began in 2003 with the sending of two rovers — Spirit and Opportunity — to explore the Martian surface and geology. ... The launch patch for Opportunity, featuring Duck Dodgers (Daffy Duck). ... Truecolour (or Truecolor, Millions on a Macintosh) graphics is a method of storing image information in a computers memory such that each pixel is represented by three or more bytes. ... Various schemes have been used or proposed to keep track of time and date on the planet Mars independently of Earth time and calendars. ... Solar Conjunction occurs when a planet or other solar system object is on the opposite side of the sun than the Earth. ...
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at the rim of Victoria Crater as photographed from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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