GFX LOWER THIRD: 9 YEARS INTO THE MISSION
GFX 2D PANORAMA
ROB MANNING: This was the holy grail. This was the reason we had gone to Mars. Oppy discovered Mars was a wet world, very much like Earth. There were oceans, water played a huge role in its early history. It completely altered the planet.
ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy begins to slowly drive through a valley on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Camera follows Oppy from behind as she begins to drive through valley, coming up to a rock.
GFX LOWER THIRD: 10 YEARS INTO THE MISSION
ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary:
Sol 3300. Nine years into the mission. Opportunity is feverishly working to complete analysis of the rock Esperance, which may hold the clues to an ancient, habitable environment.
GFX LOWER THIRD: 11 YEARS INTO THE MISSION
ILM SFX ANIMATION: Oppy drives up to the rock, and drills.
GFX LOWER THIRD: 12 YEARS INTO THE MISSION
GFX LOWER THIRD: 13 YEARS INTO THE MISSION
GFX ROVER MESSAGE INTERFACE: OPPY: APXS ENGAGED… CLAY MINERALS IDENTIFIED
ASHLEY STROUPE: And Opportunity spent years exploring Endeavour Crater, making incredible discoveries that tell that story of water. So we could go back in time to a planet that might actually have had life. KOBIE BOYKINS: A lot of people ask why I think it’s important to explore Mars. And I think one of the things that will come out of Spirit and Opportunity’s legacy is some of the answers to “Why?”
ANGELA BASSETT (V.O.) Rover Diary:
This is a clay that has been intensely altered by relatively neutral pH water, representing the most favorable conditions for biology that Opportunity has encountered.
BEKAH SOSLAND-SIEGFRIEDT: This was a huge discovery. Water. Drinkable, neutral water once existed on the surface of Mars. ILM SFX ANIMATION: Pan up from from the ground where Oppy sits to the blue horizon.
ILM SFX ANIMATION: Mars transforms into what it once was, with blue water.
KOBIE BOYKINS: Mars had water. What happened to that water? And can we take the information and understand how that could happen here on Earth? And can we understand our part in that? Are we doing something that can accelerate that change here on Earth?
MOOGEGA COOPER: And not only was there water, but it could possibly sustain ancient microbial life. So that is just revolutionary.
ILM SFX ANIMATION: Water dissipating from Mars surface.
GFX 2D ROVER CAM PHOTO
STEVE SQUYRES: It showed us that really ancient Mars was much more suitable for the origin of life.
KOBIE BOYKINS: Because that’s not something you recover from.
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