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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