Victoria Crater's Cape St. Vincent

Opportunity rover spent about 300 Martian days during 2006 and 2007 traversing the rim of Victoria Crater looking for a good place to enter the crater and capturing images of rock outcrops exposed at several cliffs along the way.

The cliff seen here is known as Cape St. Vincent, approximately 12 meters tall on the northern rim of Victoria crater, near the farthest point along the rover's traverse around the rim.

NASA says Cape St. Vincent's layering provides some of the best examples of meter scale cross-bedding observed on Mars to date. Cross-bedding refers to rock layers that are inclined relative to the horizontal and which are indicative of ancient sand dune deposits.