Monday, October 1, 2007

View of Victoria Crater from Duck Bay


This article describes a recent image taken by the Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity. This image was taken by Opportuinity and provides a view of Victoria Crater from Duck Bay. Opportunity descended into Victoria Crater on September 27, 2007, a journey of 5.77 miles from its landing site at Eagle Crater. Victoria Crater is larger than both Endurance Crater and Eagle Crater. In this image, the layered south face of the 20 foot tall Cape Verde promontory is located in the left side of the inner crater wall. The north face of the 50 foot tall stack of layered rocks is termed Cabo Frio and can be seen on the right side of the inner crater wall

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