Good Night Oppy Scriptbook

A film from Amblin Entertainment and director Ryan White

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Oppy Wake-up Song Playlist

F O R E W O R D

The Mars rover Opportunity made groundbreaking scientific discoveries on the Red Planet during her extended tenure, but perhaps her greatest achievement was the connection she formed with humans millions of miles away. Having a lifelong interest in space exploration, I was immediately drawn to Opportunity’s unlikely tale of survival against the odds, but I did not initially grasp the depth of her story. People retired, babies were born, newcomers arrived, but because of the team’s ingenuity and dedication, Opportunity still ventured on. The passion of the people who worked on Opportunity transported us to mission control, and our partners at Industrial Light & Magic kept us by Oppy’s side on her journey, creating an authentic Mars landscape based on over two hundred thousand photos. Paired with fly-on-the-wall archival and diary entries written daily at the time of the mission, the audience can experience the challenges and victories, the joy and heartache that come with caring for a robot quite literally on another planet, whose presence was still felt every day. I was told multiple times that the Opportunity mission changed the lives of everyone who worked on it, and my hope is to convey this connection to audiences old and young, of all backgrounds and nationalities, in telling the story of a mission that pushed the boundaries and left a lasting legacy for generations to come.

Roam The B-52’s

Born to Be Wild Steppenwolf

SOS Abba

Walking on Sunshine Katrina and The Waves

Here Comes the Sun The Beatles

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Wham!

I’ll Be Seeing You Billie Holiday

Ryan White

MEET TH E SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS

KOBIE BOYKINS Mechanical Engineer

MOOGEGA COOPER Planetary Protection Engineer

DOUG ELLISON Camera Operations Engineer

ABIGAIL FRAEMAN Deputy Project Scientist

ROB MANNING Lead Systems Engineer

BEKAH SOSLAND-SIEGFRIEDT Flight Director

STEVE SQUYRES Principal Scientist

ASHLEY STROUPE Rover Driver

ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU Senior Robotics Engineer

JENNIFER TROSPER Mission Manager

VANDI VERMA Rover Driver

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WAKE UP OPPY COLD OPEN

ILM ANIMATED HIRISE

STEVE SQUYRES Principal Scientist:

At the beginning, there’s nothing. There’s no…concept of a robot explorer crawling across the surface of another world. And then gradually...you start to think, you start to act, you start to build. And those machines come to life.

GFX LOWER THIRD: In 2003, twin sister robots named Opportunity and Spirit were sent to Mars.

GFX LOWER THIRD: They were expected to live for 90 days.

PHOTO REAL SFX ANIMATION: WS: A little robot sits on the red plains, alone.

BEKAH SOSLAND-SIEGFRIEDT Flight Director: A lot of people out there would say, “Oh they’re just robots.” But once we turn them on for the first time, they became so much more than just robots on another planet. ILM SFX ANIMATION: Medium profile: Oppy’s body as green light flickers, tracks up to her face. Head turns up, MCU of head and neck.

GFX ROVER MESSAGE: INCOMING… WAKE UP SONG. PLAYING…

Roam – The B-52’s

GFX ROVER MESSAGE: NASA: GOOD MORNING, OPPORTUNITY. TIME TO WAKE UP! ILM SFX ANIMATION: WS: Mars surface track uphill to reveal Oppy on top.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Medium profile: Oppy drives away and then stops, looks down.

KOBIE BOYKINS Mechanical Engineer: Once the rover’s on Mars, she has her own life. There’s energy pulsing through her veins. And she needs to be given love.

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BEKAH SOSLAND-SIEGFRIEDT: And so, we try to keep the rover as safe as possible, but sometimes she has a mind of her own.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy CU: looking down in pure horror.

GFX ROVER MESSAGE: OPPY: DRIVE STOPPED. HAZARD DETECTED.

GFX ROVER MESSAGE: NASA: YOU ARE SAFE TO PROCEED. NASA: THAT’S JUST YOUR SHADOW.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: MCU: head swivels, looks down, then drives forward.

DOUG ELLISON Camera Operations Engineer: And so, yeah it’s only a robot. But through this robot we are on this incredible adventure, together. And she becomes a family member. ILM SFX ANIMATION: As Oppy comes to a stop, the camera moves around to a CU on Oppy’s face. The wind grows louder. ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy’s POV: The wind gets louder and louder as we see a thick cloud of dust headed Oppy’s way. It looks like a tidal wave on land. ILM SFX ANIMATION: ECU: Her eyes begin to focus on the danger. In the reflection in her eyes we see the storm getting closer.

TITLE CARD: GOOD NIGHT OPPY

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Zoom out on Mars until it becomes a speck in the atmosphere.

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“ONCE THE ROVER’S ON MARS, SHE HAS H ER OWN LIFE. THERE’S ENERGY PULSING T HROUGH HER VEINS. AND SHE NEEDS TO B E GIVEN LOVE.”

Kobie Boykins – Mechanical Engineer

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L I F E ON MARS?

GFX LOWER THIRD: JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL) PASADENA, CA

GFX LOWER THIRD: MISSION CONTROL NASA’s Mars Program

JENNIFER TROSPER Mission Manager:

Something I think we all wonder about as we look up in the night sky is if we’re really alone in this universe. And trying to understand that is one of the great mysteries that we have.

JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL), PASADENA, CA

ROB MANNING Lead Systems Engineer: Over the centuries, Mars has been this enigmatic, little red dot in the sky.

It invigorated imaginations of millions of people. What could be going on in that distant land?

ASHLEY STROUPE Rover Driver:

The overall goal of the whole Mars Program has been the question of, “Did Mars ever actually have life?” So, especially earlier on in the Mars missions, we were following the water. And that’s because, at least on Earth, everywhere that we find water, there’s life. And so the question is, “Was there water on Mars? What kind of water, and could that have helped sustain life?”

ROB MANNING: So, in the mid-’70s, the two Viking missions were kind of the epitome of exploration at the time. NASA sent two orbiters and two landers, which would give us a whole new perspective on Mars.

JENNIFER TROSPER, MISSION MANAGER

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STEVE SQUYRES: At the time of the Viking mission, I was a

STEVE SQUYRES: Wow. Wow.

“bang-it-with-a-hammer” geologist. I would go out in the field, and I would do geological fieldwork. Fascinating science, but what I found disappointing about it was that there weren’t new places to discover. But then, I started working with the images from the Viking orbiters. And I would look down on Mars, using these pictures. And I had no idea what I was looking at, but the beauty of it was nobody did. This was seeing stuff nobody had ever seen before. And I knew that I was gonna do space exploration.

It’s funny to have such intense memories associated with a bunch of 40-year-old pixels. But I do, man. I remember the very first time I saw it.

ROB MANNING: The two Viking orbiters, as they looked down on Mars, they saw, “You know, that’s strange, there could be signs of past water flowing.” Was Mars once a green world with living things and blue oceans?

STEVE SQUYRES: We’d go there ourselves if we could, but we can’t. And I just knew from my training as a geologist that if we could get a rover down on the Martian surface, and it could move around and travel and actually look up close at rocks, we might find out the truth about Martian history. And so starting in the mid-’80s, I spent 10 years of writing proposals to NASA. But the proposals all failed. And I was facing the unpleasant possibility that I had just wasted an entire decade with nothing to show for it. ROB MANNING: But then, we pulled a team together at JPL. Could we actually put the rover that Steve Squyres imagined and use this landing system that we already designed? So we produced a proposal, and presented that to NASA.

VIKING ORBITER PHOTO OF THE SURFACE OF MARS

STEVE SQUYRES STUDYING VIKING ORBITER IMAGES

STEVE SQUYRES: And, we’d finally get the phone call that made our dream come true.

STEVE SQUYRES TESTING EARLY ROVER DESIGN

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2 YEARS UNTIL LAUNCH

GFX LOWER THIRD: 2 YEARS UNTIL LAUNCH

ROB MANNING: And the pressure on the team is really phenomenal. So we had to come up with an amazing team working around the clock to pull it off.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE Scott Hubbard: “Well I am indeed very very happy that we are able to announce that we are returning to Mars, this time in force, with twins. The Mars Twin Rovers.” STEVE SQUYRES: We named them Spirit and Opportunity. This was 10 years of writing proposals that finally produced the result that I’d been dreaming of. But I think if I had known at that time what an arduous path it was gonna be from that point to actually get on the surface of Mars I wouldn’t have felt quite as elated as I did.

KOBIE BOYKINS: From a young age, I was into Star Trek . I wanted to be Geordi La Forge.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Star Trek : “Engineering, this is La Forge. Shut down power to all transporters, I’m on my way.”

KOBIE BOYKINS: But, I didn’t really know what that job was. You know, I knew they were the “engineer,”

but I didn’t know what that was. I just knew I wanted to be the person that always fixed things. Building Spirit and Opportunity really started on just a whiteboard. Okay, we want to have a 90-day mission and we want to be able to find evidence of past water. Okay, what do we need to do then? And then this team of different engineers has to bring that rover to life.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “We’re gonna take our seats, let’s get started.”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE JENNIFER TROSPER:

“Okay. I’m up here as the project engineer, in order to make sure that the big picture fits together between the flight system and mission system. I’ll briefly go over launch, cruise, and EDL.” JENNIFER TROSPER: Our whole objective was to build two autonomous solar-powered rovers that could survive 90 Sols, three months on Mars. And we were really hoping at least one of them would work. But we knew that if we don’t get it right, we’re gonna miss our launch date. STEVE SQUYRES: The schedule for mission to Mars is literally driven by the alignment of the planets and if you miss that launch window, the next one comes around 26 months later.

ROB MANNING: That is no time to design, develop, test two rovers, and put them on two rockets.

KOBIE BOYKINS, SENIOR ENGINEER

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ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU Senior Robotics Engineer: This was my first mission, and it was very exciting,

you know, doing something that no one’s done before. I grew up in Ghana, and when I was a kid I was very fascinated by radio. And I was curious, “Are there people inside the radio?” So one day I opened the radio and I was disappointed to find there were no people in the radio. So, that’s my fascination with engineering.

KOBIE BOYKINS: For the rover design, it was a deliberate decision to make the characteristics humanlike.

ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: When you are a geologist and working in the field, you typically take a rock and break it up to look inside of it. So the rover needs a robotic arm. And it had multiple instruments at the end to take measurements and microscopic images. Like a Swiss Army knife.

STEVE SQUYRES: Now, the resolution of the rovers’ cameras is the exact equivalent of human 20/20 vision. So, all the sudden they start to look an awful lot like eyeballs.

KOBIE BOYKINS: And then, the height of the rover was 5 foot 2. That’s the average height of a human being. So it would feel like as the rover was driving taking these images, that a human being was walking along the surface. DOUG ELLISON: It’s just a box of wires, right, but you end up with this cute-ish looking robot that has a face. JENNIFER TROSPER: So we had these amazing science instruments but once you put all that stuff on the rover, the mass gets bigger.

GFX LOWER THIRD: 18 MONTHS UNTIL LAUNCH

JENNIFER TROSPER: Then this is gonna be a big problem for landing on Mars.

ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU, SENIOR ROBOTICS ENGINEER

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JENNIFER TROSPER: So, our landing system had these big airbags that inflated and they would bounce across the surface. ROB MANNING: The biggest problem, right off the bat, we started doing math for how much Spirit and Opportunity were going to weigh. And will those airbags be able to handle that weight? So we started doing tests.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Airbag tests: “This is just dandy. This is a good rock. I like this rock.”

JENNIFER TROSPER: So we were trying out the airbags with the types of rocks we could encounter on Mars. We do the first big drop…huge gaping holes in these airbags get ripped by the rocks and we were like, “Oh...this is not good. Not good at all.”

PARACHUTE TESTS

PARACHUTE TESTS

ROB MANNING: The parachutes were another story altogether.

PARACHUTE CONSTRUCTION

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: NASA people using a chalkboard to figure out landing: “Then, what I’m trying to look at is literally using 6 little bungee cords attached here to the airbags. And the challenge here is that there’s a lot of different ways to do this, a lot of different ways to do this. We don’t know which one is the best, we only get one shot at it.”

ROVER DESIGN TESTING

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1 YEAR UNTIL LAUNCH

GFX LOWER THIRD: SPIRIT TESTING

STEVE SQUYRES: So we built Spirit and Opportunity

with the intention of them being identical twins. And they kind of started out that way but things diverged quickly.

GFX LOWER THIRD: 1 YEAR UNTIL LAUNCH

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Spirit test bed: “And we’re off the air.”

ROB MANNING: When we did those tests with this big rocket-shaped payload and dropped it out of the sky from a helicopter. First one, the parachute tore to shreds. The second one was torn to shreds. And so we realized we didn’t have a working parachute. PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Adam: “Unfortunately, that chute that just exploded was the chute that we were planning on taking to Mars.”

DOUG ELLISON: All the way through assembly and testing, it was always Spirit hitting some sort of test first and it would fail. PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: KOBIE BOYKINS: “We lost a bushing. Look on the deck.”

DOUG ELLISON: And then along comes Opportunity.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Another engineer: “You’re in very very serious trouble. What part of this gives you guess? Where are you concerned?”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE Pete Theisinger: “There’s a list of threats that these guys have come to me with, and I have added all those threats up. They go in the category of everything we think that can go wrong.”

JENNIFER TROSPER: In the back of your mind you’re like, “This is a billion-dollar national asset. This could be a complete disaster.”

GFX LOWER THIRD: 10 MONTHS UNTIL LAUNCH

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Spirit test bed: “Okay, we’re ready. Here we go.”

JPL ENGINEERS AT WORK

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GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY TESTING SPIRIT TESTING

GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY TESTING

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Opportunity test bed: “3, 2, 1.” “Thank you!” DOUG ELLISON: And every test, Opportunity came through with flying colors. So even before they left this planet, Spirit was troublesome, Opportunity was Little Miss Perfect.

GFX LOWER THIRD: 7 MONTHS UNTIL LAUNCH

KOBIE BOYKINS: So, after so much time testing and building our rovers, now it’s time to put Oppy on the ground. This is the very first time we breathe life into the rover. Move. Her first steps. I’m getting tingly. ’Cause it was like “Ohhh it’s alive!”

ROVER TESTING

STEVE SQUYRES: She becomes almost like a living thing to you.

A real living robot that you can imagine going to Mars and doing the things that you’ve dreamed of doing there. To say it’s like a child being born would be to trivialize parenthood, but it feels sort of like that.

ROB MANNING: But you feel like it’s now clear your child is really ready for this wild and woolly world.

STEVE SQUYRES: Had we done all the testing we wanted to do? Absolutely not. But eventually you just run out of time. And it was time to fly.

ROB MANNING

STEVE SQUYRES

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“A FILM WITH THE POWER TO INSPIRE A GENERATION”

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R E A D Y TO LAUNCH

GFX LOWER THIRD: MORNING OF LAUNCH KENNEDY SPACE CENTER

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE KOBIE BOYKINS: “We’re out here at 5:30 in the morning.

But, you know, for us this is a lot of time, a lot of hours, a lot of sleepless nights coming together. So, sort of surreal, I don’t know if it’s really gonna happen yet. It’s like the whole butterfly thing going on.”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE ROB MANNING: “Lucky peanuts.”

ROVER LAUNCH

JENNIFER TROSPER: So Spirit would launch first, and Opportunity, three weeks later.

GFX LOWER THIRD: SPIRIT LAUNCH, JUNE 10, 2003

GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY LAUNCH, JULY 7, 2003

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “This is Delta launch control at T-minus 8 minutes 40 seconds.”

JENNIFER TROSPER: And, I was in the control room for Spirit at JPL. And I actually like it when I have a job to do. Because then I’m focused, and it’s a little harder to get emotional because you have something you have to focus on. I’m a farm girl from Ohio. I grew up raising sheep, pigs, cows. And my dad had worked in the Army Corps of Engineers on the very first rockets. And he would just tell these amazing stories. But, aerospace

JPL TEAM AT ROVER LAUNCH

LUCKY PEANUTS

engineering was not something girls around me did. So I just couldn’t imagine that I would ever have the opportunity to send a rover to Mars.

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PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “RT, go for launch.”

KOBIE BOYKINS: I have raised this child. That’s sort of what it feels like. And now it’s that child’s moment to shine. STEVE SQUYRES: But it was hard to say goodbye. These rovers, I devoted 16 years of my life to them. And then you put them on top of a rocket and you shoot them to space and you’re never gonna see them again. JENNIFER TROSPER: For Opportunity, I was out with my family and we were watching the launch from the same launchpad my dad had launched his missions from. And he had since passed away. And he was the proudest dad anybody could ever have. It was just very emotional, for me, for my mom, for my family, to just see how he had encouraged and inspired me to do space exploration.

KOBIE BOYKINS: T-minus 10, you start freaking out.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Launch control: “9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, engine start, and lift off.”

GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY / SPIRIT

KOBIE BOYKINS: You fear that rocket. “No firecracker, no firecracker, no firecracker…”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “[unintelligible]. Vehicles responding. Vehicles recovering very nicely from the liftoff [unintelligible].” ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: I don’t know whether I shed a tear but, I think that, you know, this rocket is carrying my hopes and dreams.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: EXTERIOR WS: Spirit traveling through space.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: [continuing]...pan with Oppy to a wide shot of the rovers’ path to Mars, Spirit leading the way in the distance. KOBIE BOYKINS: The travel time to Mars for both rovers was six and a half months. Spirit and Opportunity were only three weeks behind each other. So they’re not super far apart in celestial terms. ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: So we have a trajectory to Mars, and we want to make sure that we’re following that road to Mars as we move along.

And, you know, it’s very difficult to describe. But you feel your life’s work in the rocket.

GFX SPACE JOURNEY MAP

ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: It is like you’re in Los Angeles and you want to hit a golf ball to hit the door handle of Buckingham Palace. And that’s what we’re trying to do.

GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY / SPIRIT

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ILM SFX ANIMATION: SIDE-BY-SIDE — INTERIOR MS: Spirit and Oppy in each of their spacecraft, both collapsed into fetal position. KOBIE BOYKINS: We call it the quiescent period, six and a half months of quiescent time. Nothing going on. Well, that’s not exactly true. ILM SFX ANIMATION: Suddenly, violently, the sun pulses and bellows, shooting out aggressive torches of fiery plumes into the solar system, full of particles and debris. Camera tracks across huge sun to reveal particles flaring into space… ROB MANNING: We got hit by the largest series of solar flares that had ever been seen before. And we saw this ejection of the sun’s energies and particles racing toward our spacecraft. ILM SFX ANIMATION: Camera follows, and passes by particle clouds forming… camera finds tiny Oppy, traveling slowly through space, and then particles overtake Oppy. ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: Throughout solar flares, the sun releases bursts of plasma. Plasma is a highly charged cloud of electrons.

ROB MANNING: And these energetic particles, which could actually kill a human, they go slamming right into our rovers, all the way into the computer.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: SIDE-BY-SIDE VIEW — MS: Inside, we see Spirit and Oppy rattling forcefully as electron particles start to shower them… they are inundated with electron particles… Dissolve a transparent window to reveal the computer inside. Blinking lights go haywire with flashes and beeps.

KOBIE BOYKINS: Really bad for spacecraft.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy and Spirit, curled up in darkness. It’s quiet…continues…

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ILM SFX ANIMATION: (...shot continued) Dissolve a transparent window to reveal the computer inside. Blinking lights go haywire with flashes and beeps. ROB MANNING: Now the software we put on board had been corrupted. So we had to reboot both rovers. ILM SFX ANIMATION: MS: Oppy and Spirit, curled up in darkness. It’s quiet...continues... KOBIE BOYKINS: So, we told our Johnny Fives to go to sleep. This is really scary. JENNIFER TROSPER: So you’re loading this new version of software up on the rovers and transitioning to it, you know, control, alt, delete, hoping all works. ILM SFX ANIMATION: MS: Slowly, Oppy and Spirit slowly boot back up. First we hear a quiet whirring, then a single light blinks on…continues… Side by side, their abdomens.

ROB MANNING: It worked. They rebooted. And it took us a couple of weeks to clean up our computers. By then the sun had calmed down.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: MWS: Spacecraft flying peacefully again towards Mars.

ROB MANNING: The software was loaded and we were ready to land on Mars.

STEVE SQUYRES: But at that time two-thirds of missions to Mars had failed. Mars was a spacecraft graveyard when we flew.

GFX LOWER THIRD: 4 YEARS EARLIER

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“AN UPLIFTING DELIGHT”

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R O V E R S LAND ON MARS

STEVE SQUYRES: A few years before, NASA launched two missions to Mars, Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter. Both failed. One burned up in the atmosphere, the other one crashed on the surface. KOBIE BOYKINS: Mars Climate Orbiter, it was a communication error. We were converting what was given to us in English, we thought it was given to us in metric.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “Good evening everyone and welcome to what promises to be both an exciting and eventful night here at JPL.” PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “This is live coverage of Spirit’s landing on Mars... Live coverage of Opportunity’s landing on Mars and tonight the navigation team says all systems are go.” GFX LOWER THIRD: SPIRIT LANDING – JANUARY 3, 2004 OPPORTUNITY LANDING – JANUARY 24, 2004 ILM SFX ANIMATION: Split Screen “rocket cam” of both vehicles careening towards Mars. Distinct landing sites can be seen on the planet. JENNIFER TROSPER: Spirit and Opportunity were going to land on opposite sides of Mars, three weeks apart. The anxiety is very high. I don’t know at what point I went on blood pressure medication. PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Dr. Wayne Lee: “And a pleasant good evening from the flight deck. Our current speed is 11,320 mph, which is fast enough to traverse a distance equal to the United States in 12 minutes. At this time we’d like to invite you to sit back and enjoy the landing.”

DOUG ELLISON: And that’s ridiculously embarrassing.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: David Letterman: “Big news from outer space, ladies and gentlemen. Apparently now scientists claim there is no intelligent life at NASA. Yeah.” STEVE SQUYRES: And so all eyes were kind of on us. We felt that Spirit and Opportunity needed to become a mission of redemption. KOBIE BOYKINS: As part of the team, we felt as though if this landing didn’t succeed this might be the end of NASA.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Establishing shot of Mars globe in space.

KOBIE BOYKINS: So, Entry, Descent, Landing. It’s approximately 86 events where if one thing goes wrong, we will lose the rovers.

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KOBIE BOYKINS (CONT.): It’s the scariest thing you could ever think of. Because Mars and Earth aren’t right next to each other. Mars and Earth are a long way away. And so, the communication time from the rover saying, “Hey, I’m doing this,” to Earth is 10 minutes. You’re pointed at Mars and there is nothing you can do other than hope they survive. JENNIFER TROSPER: We call it the six minutes of terror. It’s the time from when the spacecraft enters the top of the Martian atmosphere until it does all the autonomous, all on its own, activities it needs to do to get safely landed on the ground.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer: “Atmospheric entry in 3, 2, 1.”

ILM SFX ANIMATION: MWS: Spirit makes final turn to entry and deploys cruise stage.

JENNIFER TROSPER: Everything is on the line in the six minutes of terror.

GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY / SPIRIT

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer: “The vehicle has now hit the top of the Martian atmosphere. At time of peak heating, heat shield will keep temperatures upwards of 600° Celsius.”

ILM SFX ANIMATION: CU: Inside the lander. We see Spirit curled up inside the shaking vehicle.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Up angle, as aeroshell descends from space towards us, we push toward aeroshell, as heat shield deflects fire… heat effect diminishes as we approach aeroshell.

KOBIE BOYKINS: Parachute opens, slows you down more.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer: “Current velocity is 446 mph. At this time we expect the vehicle has gone subsonic.”

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ILM SFX ANIMATION: Lander and parachute rocket past camera towards surface of Mars. KOBIE BOYKINS: You have this thing called the heat shield that’s super hot, you have to get rid of it.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Vehicle in air, heat shield ejects and falls away. Second lander descends from vehicle attached by thin rope.

ROB MANNING: But now the hard part begins. The lander has to rappel down on a 20-meter rope. ILM SFX ANIMATION: EWS: Vehicle is swinging in air as it descends, all three components can be seen.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer: “Spacecraft reporting lander has separated.”

KOBIE BOYKINS: So now you have a parachute, you have this backshell, you have this lander. Inside that lander is the rover. ILM SFX ANIMATION: MS: Lander body hanging at the end of the rope. Airbags pop out around it.

GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY / SPIRIT

KOBIE BOYKINS: The airbags inflate. At 40 feet above the surface.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: POV from airbag: looking at the ground as we speed down towards it, our descent suddenly slows, as we hit our brakes, we see a slight heat effect at the edges of our screen…

KOBIE BOYKINS: At 40 feet, the backshell fires retro rockets. Slows the rover down to 0 mph. And then cuts the last cord.

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ILM SFX ANIMATION: Steep up-angle: The airbag crashes into our camera.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer: “We don’t see a signal at the moment. We saw an intermittent signal that indicated we were bouncing, however – however we currently do not have signal from the spacecraft. Please stand by.” ROB MANNING: Spirit vanishes. The signal goes away. Completely gone. In other words, she may have crashed.

KOBIE BOYKINS: Silence.

Everybody waiting for a signal. Everybody waiting for something.

TOUCHDOWN!

HAPPIEST ROOM ON PLANET EARTH

ROB MANNING: I was thinking that we did all of this in vain, that maybe we lost this mission.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer 2: “We see it, we see it!”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer 3: “What do we see?”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer 2: “We see it!”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “We’re on Mars everybody!”

ROB MANNING: You see us jumping up and down, we’re not jumping for joy, we’re jumping for relief. Both rovers landed safely on the surface of Mars.

A HOLE IN ONE

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YEAR 1 JANUARY 4, 2004

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Hero shot: Like a Transformer, Spirit’s body comes out of the shell, twisting and unraveling, until her body is formed. Her head comes up last. She sits on her lander like a queen on a throne.

GFX LOWER THIRD: SOL 1 JANUARY 4, 2004

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary: Spirit Rover Diary, January 4, 2004. Sol 1.

GFX/PRODUCTION: Computer screen establishing our rover planner logs.

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary: So Spirit’s a drama queen, but after a nail-biting ten minutes of silence, we have a rover safely on the surface of Mars. PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “Ladies and gentlemen, you are privileged to be in one of the most exciting rooms on Earth at the moment.”

ABIGAIL FRAEMAN Deputy Project Scientist:

I was actually a high school student when Opportunity landed. And I was selected as one of 16 students from around the world to be in the mission control room with the science team when Oppy sent down her first images.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “Full Navcams are coming down now. Full Navcam.”

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PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “Wow! We are on Mars.”

JENNIFER TROSPER: When those first images come, the relief, the relief, you know, the level of my blood pressure going back down. Then we’re all on cloud nine.

KOBIE BOYKINS: My child has arrived. It’s “Ahh.”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “Welcome to Mars.”

ILM SFX ANIMATION: CU: Oppy opening up, her head extending.

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary: Opportunity Rover Diary, Sol 1. The signal from the vehicle is solid and strong. Opportunity is on Mars.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: MS of Oppy: We slowly dolly past her as she looks around.

KOBIE BOYKINS: Oppy landed in a small little crater in the Meridiani Plains. And it was a 300,000,000-mile hole in one.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Camera lands at the back of her head, rack focusing to the bedrock she was looking at.

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary: Pancam, navcam, and hazcams are all returning spectacular images. What in God’s name are we looking at?

ILM SFX ANIMATION: POV: Pan to rocks on sand (bedrock).

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: STEVE SQUYRES: “I will attempt no science analysis because it looks like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my life. As we expected – holy smokes. I’m sorry, I got no words for this.”

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ABIGAIL FRAEMAN: There was this dark sand everywhere. And then poking out in the distance were these light-colored rocks. They were jumping up and down and saying, “Oh my gosh, that’s bedrock, you guys, I see bedrock!” And, you know, of course I didn’t know what that meant. I didn’t know why that was important. But I don’t think I slept a wink that night. It was so exciting. ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary: Bedrock is geologic truth. It’s the stuff that can tell you what happened right here in this exact place long ago.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy coming off lander.

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary: Hundreds upon hundreds of people around the world have worked on this project. And it all had to go perfectly to make this moment happen. ILM SFX ANIMATION: Split Screen CUs of Spirit and Oppy. They come to a rest and put their heads down to sleep as the sky changes to night.

GFX ROVER MESSAGE: OPPY: GOOD MORNING COMMENCING TASKS.

STEVE SQUYRES: A tradition, in human spaceflight, has been to wake the crew up. The crew wake-up song. Which they would play music, you know, “Wake up guys! It’s time to get to work.”

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary:

Spirit’s alive, Opportunity landed safely, and we’ve got real bedrock in front of us at Meridiani. Now it’s time for sleep.

ASHLEY STROUPE: The Martian day, we call it a Sol, is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day.

GFX ROVER MESSAGE: NASA: GOOD NIGHT, OPPORTUNITY. NASA: GOOD NIGHT, SPIRIT.

ABIGAIL FRAEMAN: So your schedule is shifting by about an hour every single day.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “Hello everyone. This is a big day for the rover on Mars. And it’s ready to do exactly what it was designed to do and be a robotic geologist.”

STEVE SQUYRES: We were all living on Mars time. And it was a tough way to live, ’cause, you know, if the daily planning meeting today is gonna start at noon, and two and a half weeks later you started your day at midnight.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “As per custom, our morning wake-up song is coming right up.”

JENNIFER TROSPER: And so we were tired, we were jetlagged.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “Born to be Wild” starts playing. Born to Be Wild – Steppenwolf

And we needed to wake up too. And so now we were on this 90-Sol race to find out as much as we could about Mars.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy coming off lander.

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“THRILLING AND WONDERFULLY ENGAGING”

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STEVE SQUYRES: We picked the Spirit landing site, Gusev Crater, that looked like it had a huge dried-up riverbed flowing into it. And we went there hoping to find evidence of past water and past habitability. And I mean, there has to have been a lake in Gusev Crater at one time.

GFX ROVER MESSAGE: SPIRIT: VOLCANIC ROCK.

GFX ROVER MESSAGE: SPIRIT: MORE VOLCANIC ROCK.

ABIGAIL FRAEMAN: But all Spirit found was this prison of lava rocks.

GFX ROVER MESSAGE: SPIRIT: EVEN MORE VOLCANIC ROCK.

ABIGAIL FRAEMAN: No evidence at all for any interaction with water on these rocks.

GFX LOWER THIRD: SPIRIT

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Pan from Spirit to Oppy on Mars.

DOUG ELLISON: On the other side of Mars, Opportunity’s landing site was unlike anything we had ever seen before.

GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY

GFX 2D TIMELAPSE

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary: Opportunity Sol 8. We’ve gotten down the first images of the soil right in front of the rover. It’s the strangest-looking thing we’ve ever seen on Mars.

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STEVE SQUYRES: So as it turns out, the surface of Mars, at this location, is covered by an uncountable number of little round things. And when she got to the outcrop these little round things were embedded in the rock like blueberries in a muffin.

GFX ROVER MESSAGE: MINI-TES ENGAGED… HEMATITE IDENTIFIED

GFX 2D ROVER CAM PHOTO: CU: Blueberries.

ABIGAIL FRAEMAN: And it turns out the composition of these little blueberries was a mineral called hematite. Which is a mineral that often forms in the presence of water. STEVE SQUYRES: From the mineralogy, from the geochemistry, everything that we needed to come to a reasonable conclusion that there was once water on Mars was right there in the walls of Eagle Crater.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: CU: Oppy in the landscape of blueberries. Cam rotates around head, then settles straight on Oppy’s face to merge with... STEVE SQUYRES: But, this is a very acidic environment. Not a place where life could have developed.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: CU: Oppy looks down then up, “okay...lame” vibes.

ABIGAIL FRAEMAN: So yes, there had been liquid water but this wasn’t water that you or I would want to drink. It was basically like battery acid.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: CU: Oppy looks down then up, “okay...lame” vibes.

DOUG ELLISON: You would not want to put your toes in here. You probably wouldn’t have any toes left if you did.

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ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy slowly emerges from inside Eagle Crater.

DOUG ELLISON: What you really want is nice flowing, neutral pH groundwater. And so to go and find a story of habitability, you’ve got to go on a bit of a road trip.

GFX LOWER THIRD: SOL 57

DOUG ELLISON: But the problem is, these rovers only have 90 days to live.

VANDI VERMA Rover Driver: Rover drivers are those of us who operate the rover on Mars. It’s such a fun job.

But you can’t just use a steering wheel to drive it. Because it takes anywhere from 4 minutes to 20 minutes for a signal to reach Mars. So we send the commands. We then go off and sleep, and then the rover will execute the drive that day. And by the time the drive is done, we come back and we can use the results of that and start planning again. I grew up in India. And when I was about 7 years old, someone gave me this book, which was about space exploration. And I was just blown away. PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: VANDI VERMA: “Did you see how close we get to that rock in the beginning?” VANDI VERMA: During the mission, I was pregnant with twins. And so, it was a different way for me to relate to the twin rovers. I thought about these two beings that are so connected and so similar and yet are going to have completely independent lives. The rovers have their own personality. And it’s hard for me to pick which one of them is my favorite. I can’t really pick one, you know, it’s sort of like this twin thing.

JENNIFER TROSPER: In Gusev Crater, Spirit was in a much colder site.

VANDI VERMA, ROVER DRIVER

Opportunity was at the equator, kinda like a vacation spot on Mars. And so, Spirit just had a tougher mission ahead of her.

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ILM SFX ANIMATION: Spirit drives up to the rock.

JENNIFER TROSPER: I was one of Spirit’s mission managers. And so I didn’t go home for several days. We’re all kind of somber in the mission support area where we’re commanding Spirit, and trying to get any information from her. And Mark Adler was picking the wake-up song for the day, and I was just like, “Oh do we have to play a wake-up song?” You know, I was just kind of worried about Spirit and the fun part of the wake-up song was lost on me at that point.

KOBIE BOYKINS: And so Spirit, she finds this rock we dubbed Adirondack.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Rover POV arm unfolding in front of rock.

KOBIE BOYKINS: She reaches her arm out, she touches the rock. And she doesn’t call home. PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “Yes sir, I’m not seeing anything from our displays. You’re not seeing any signal at this time?”

GFX LOWER THIRD MARK ADLER, MISSION MANAGER

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE Mark Adler: “And all stations this is Mission, today is not the day to buck tradition, I think, so we’re gonna play a song.”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “SOS” by Abba plays. SOS – Abba

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “That’s a negative.”

JENNIFER TROSPER: I thought, what a perfect song! Abba, SOS.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “Copy.”

ILM SFX ANIMATION: It turns back to day. Spirit is still frozen in front of Adirondack rock.

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary: We got back a beep. But Spirit’s a very sick rover.

Her flash memory onboard the vehicle has somehow become corrupted, so she’s been awake through the last two nights, crashing and rebooting over and over. JENNIFER TROSPER: She’s up all night, she’s like the teenage kid who just can’t stop playing their video game, I mean she was just going and going and going until her batteries were almost drained.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: MCU: Spirit’s face looking over-caffeinated but then exhausted.

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JENNIFER TROSPER: So, we said, “Let’s try to get her shut down.” But we gave her the gentle shutdown command, and she wouldn’t shut down. And so we started to get a little panicked, because

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE JENNIFER TROSPER: “It’s like a well-oiled machine, isn’t it.”

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Medium of Spirit hacking at rock.

now we have to send Spirit a shutdown damnit. It’s a command that, no matter what else happens, it makes the rover shut down.

GFX LOWER THIRD: SOL 78

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “142 Delta Alpha. Critical Shutdown Damnit in 24 hours.”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: STEVE SQUYRES:

ROB MANNING: We were about ready to tell the world that we had lost Spirit. But then suddenly…

“The thing that’s obviously gonna limit the lifetime of the vehicles is buildup of dust on the solar arrays. You can think of 90 Sols as being when the warranty expires. That’s how long the mission is intended to last. We expect to get at least 90 Sols out of it. How much more than that we get depends on what Mars gives us.”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “Confirmed data is flown.”

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Rover trekking along away from camera, dust starts swirling in the air.

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary: After a few nights of severe insomnia, the rover is now sleeping peacefully. Spirit is back.

JENNIFER TROSPER: We were concerned that after 90 Sols on Mars, Spirit and Opportunity would not have enough power, and that would be the way that the rovers died.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Zoom to medium of Spirit, head turns.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Over the shoulder: Spirit’s POV: 3 large dust devil tornadoes move left to right across the flat Gusev Crater horizon against the setting sun. Shot continues – camera pushes past Spirit towards dust devils. Camera tilts slightly upward as tornadoes approach... Push forward as dust devil envelops the camera. JENNIFER TROSPER: And then we see these dust devils and we were concerned about what they could do to Spirit and Opportunity.

SPIRIT HACKING A ROCK

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ROB MANNING: We had taken its pictures for the whole rover some weeks before and it was getting really, really red and dusty. You could barely see the solar panels anymore.

GFX 2D ROVER CAM PHOTO: Selfie photo of dusty panels.

ROB MANNING: The morning after the dust devil, it’s like somebody came along with Windex, ch ch ch, and the solar panels were as clean as the day we landed.

JENNIFER TROSPER: Turns out the dust devils were the best friends these rovers had.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Dust devils overhead.

ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: They were literally our life support machines. They come in at the right time to breathe a little – a little oxygen into us and then we get our energies back.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Matt Wallace: “Here’s to us!”

GFX LOWER THIRD: SOL 91

JENNIFER TROSPER: So we had met our main mission success

requirements, 90 Sols. And we start thinking we have maybe unlimited life on these rovers because the dust devils have really helped us out here, so let’s go. Let’s hit the road. Pedal to the metal and go see Mars.

GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY / SPIRIT

GFX 2D TIMELAPSE: Side-by-side timelapse of Spirit and Opportunity driving/traveling.

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“A BEAUTIFUL EXPLORATION OF SCIENCE AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT”

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STEVE SQUYRES: We got to Sol 90 for both rovers and we had fun. So we’re doing rover drag races. I mean, the two rovers were competing with each other to see who could do the most meters on a given Sol.

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary:

What we really need is more bedrock, deeper down in the ground. The closest thing is that big crater off to the east named Endurance.

ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary: Sol 99 for Spirit; head for the hills.

STEVE SQUYRES: The beautiful thing about that crater is it is a time-ordered sequence of events preserved like a book that you can read with the old rocks at the bottom and younger and younger and younger rocks piled up on top.

DOUG ELLISON: With Spirit we had this disappointment, like this landing site is not what we thought it would be.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy looks down on the edge of Endurance…

ABIGAIL FRAEMAN: But Spirit looked off, and there were these hills rising in the distance which were named the Columbia Hills. And so if there’s any potential evidence of drinkable water, maybe we’ll find it in them hills.

STEVE SQUYRES: There’s scientific gold down there, but we had never intended to drive a rover down such a steep slope.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy trekking towards Endurance.

DOUG ELLISON: It’s very easy to kill a robot on another planet when you’re on a place like Endurance.

ABIGAIL FRAEMAN: And, on the other side of the planet, our lucky rover, Opportunity, was on a whole other adventure.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE STEVE SQUYRES: “I would plan to drive as far down as we need to drive.” ABIGAIL FRAEMAN: The tension between scientists and engineers is the scientists are the ones who want to do the crazy thing. You know, “I want to drive at this 35° slope ’cause that rock is so interesting.” And the engineers are the ones who say, “No, no, no, that’s not safe. You can’t do that. This thing you want to do is completely bananas.” PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE Matt Wallace: “Frankly, if we can’t climb pretty reliably up these rocks, we’re not going into this crater.”

ASHLEY STROUPE: So we built a big test bed with basically a full-scale model of the rover. PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE ROB MANNING: “Whoa, a little slippage here.”

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ILM ROVER CAM VIDEO: Rover POV cam of her mapping the area and hazards.

ASHLEY STROUPE: But we have something called autonomy built into the rovers.

VANDI VERMA: We allow the rover to think for itself. Because the rover knows more about the situation on Mars than we do.

ASHLEY STROUPE: So when Opportunity went down into the crater,

she noticed that she was sliding too much downhill, and she stopped just centimeters from the tip of her solar panel. That short of crashing into this giant rock, which could have been mission ending for Opportunity. We all had heart attacks, but her autonomy saved us. And we were so proud of our lucky rover.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Bird’s eye drone looking down on Oppy traveling.

ASHLEY STROUPE: We tried to simulate the geometry, we tried to simulate the soil.

STEVE SQUYRES: With Opportunity, we had a big big big photo printed, north to south strip that was acquired for a moment. And it showed Eagle Crater, where we landed,

ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: And the first time we go to the test bedding, you just drive straight up. It comes straight down. ASHLEY STROUPE: So we inched our way down. I guess, you know, we should use metric. We centimetered our way down. ILM SFX ANIMATION: LONG LENS shallow depth of field: Oppy inches downhill, stops, inches, stops. Causing pebbles to roll downhill!

ILM ANIMATED HIRISE: Journey map.

STEVE SQUYRES: Endurance Crater, where Opportunity was.

And we rolled it out on a table, way way down at the end there was this big crater, you know, kilometers to the south that we named Victoria Crater. DOUG ELLISON: And I know it’s ridiculous to think this is a mission that was supposed to be three months and go, “So, we’ve got this crater. We think it’ll maybe take two years to get there.” But we did it anyway.

ASHLEY STROUPE: Very carefully planning the drive to keep Opportunity from getting into too much trouble.

So we came back the next morning and looked at the images and you could hear the gasps from different parts of the room. The surface around the side of the crater wasn’t as grippy as we’d hoped it was, and she apparently started sliding down the hill towards this giant boulder.

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“A SALUTE TO THE BEST OF WHAT HUMANS ARE CAPABLE WHEN THEY UNITE IN A COMMON PURPOSE TO EXPAND THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF MATTERS BEYOND THE REALM OF THE KNOWN”

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1.5 YEARS INTO THE MISSION

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE JENNIFER TROSPER: “So, first things first.”

Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and The Waves

GFX LOWER THIRD: SOL 445

GFX LOWER THIRD: 1.5 YEARS INTO THE MISSION

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Aerial of Oppy traveling from Endurance, Victoria Crater in the far distance. She arrives at the edge of an expanse of sand dunes.

ROB MANNING: So, Victoria Crater was miles away. But it was a pretty clear shot. There’s no hills or mountains in the way. Just these ripples of dust.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: CU Oppy: She moves her head left to right, scanning the vista.

ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: So we do what we call blind driving.

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Tracking with Oppy as she starts motoring through the dunes. She moves faster than camera.

ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: So we told Opportunity, “You are blindfolded, trust me, keep going.”

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy from the front.

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