This Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Pancam "super resolution" mosaic
of the approximately 6 m (20 foot) high cliff face of the Cape Verde
promontory was taken by the rover from inside Victoria Crater, during the
rover's descent into Duck Bay. Super-resolution is an imaging technique
which utilizes information from multiple pictures of the same target in
order to generate an image with a higher resolution than any of the
individual images. Cape Verde is a geologically rich outcrop and is
teaching scientists about how rocks at Victoria crater were modified since
they were deposited long ago. This image complements super resolution
mosaics obtained at Cape St. Mary and Cape St. Vincent and is consistent
with the hypothesis that Victoria crater is located in the middle of what
used to be an ancient sand dune field. Many rover team scientists are
hoping to be able to eventually drive the rover closer to these layered
rocks in the hopes of measuring their chemistry and mineralogy.
This is a Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Panoramic Camera image mosaic
acquired on sols 1342 and 1356 (November 2 and 17, 2007), and was
constructed from a mathematical combination of 64 different blue filter
(480 nm) images.