Tribute to a Mars rover

The new documentary Good Night Oppy tells the story of Opportunity and its unexpectedly long life on the red planet.

In 2003, NASA (the US space agency) sent a rover (wheeled robot) named Opportunity on a mission to find signs of water on Mars. The rover was expected to function for 90 days, but it worked on the planet for 15 years. Now Opportunity’s story is the subject of the new documentary Good Night Oppy. The film is in theaters and arrives on Prime Video on November 23. Opportunity went to Mars with its twin, Spirit. Each of the solar-powered rovers had tools for collecting minerals and a camera for capturing images. More than 60 million miles away, teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, oversaw their work. Good Night Oppy was directed by Ryan White. As a child, he loved NASA and E.T., a film about a…

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