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.
56
57
Made with FlippingBook - Online Brochure Maker