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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