The Mars
rover Opportunity
snapped this view – part of a massive panorama released Wednesday – from a
perch known as “Cape Verde” at Victoria
Crater, which the robotic rockhound has been
exploring since September
2006.
[Click here
for Opportunity’s full panorama of Victoria Crater from Cape Verde].
Altogether,
Opportunity has returned some
80,700 images of Mars and driven
across about 6.1 miles (9.8 kilometers) of the red planet.
The Cape
Verde promontory is in the foreground at the left of this image, with
Victoria’s crater rim cutting a wide arc behind it to encompass rippling dunes
inside its basin, which are visible at the lower right.
The far
side of Victoria in the distance lies about half a mile (800 meters) southeast
of Opportunity.
NASA’s Mars
rover mission, which includes to the robotic roaming
of Opportunity’s robotic
twin Spirit, has entered its fourth Earth year.
