ILM SFX ANIMATION: WS: Opportunity travels across a plain, her arm outstretched in front of her. She exits the frame. VANDI VERMA: And with arthritis setting in, Opportunity also started to have problems with the right front wheel. And so when you were driving it, you had to think in terms of it always veering off and how you were gonna correct for that. ILM SFX ANIMATION: Overhead of Opportunity traveling across the screen on a plain, she moves in a zigzag pattern because her right front wheel veers off. BEKAH SOSLAND-SIEGFRIEDT: Once she started getting older and older, Oppy started losing her memory. She would go to sleep, and she would essentially forget all of the science information and all of what she had done before she’d wake up. ILM SFX ANIMATION: We watch Opportunity wake up one morning and appear totally confused/surprised, looking around like she has never seen the planet before.
BEKAH SOSLAND-SIEGFRIEDT: And around the same time that Opportunity started losing her memory, my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. And to see my own grandmother become not herself anymore. It was one of the hardest things to go through. And so when I started seeing Opportunity start slipping away too, we had to figure out a way to operate in this new paradigm of her having amnesia. ILM SFX ANIMATION: We watch Oppy take a photo, her computer churning slowly, trying to digest it. The processing is much slower and inhibited than it was in her early years. BEKAH SOSLAND-SIEGFRIEDT: And we did so successfully just by forcing her to stay awake so she could send us earthlings all the data before she went to sleep and forgot everything she did.
GFX ROVER MESSAGE: NASA: NO NAP TODAY STAY AWAKE TO SEND DATA.
GFX ROVER MESSAGE: OPPY: SENDING DATA.
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