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.
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