'Good Night, Oppy' is a documentary that traces the journey of twin Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit and the people at mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who dedicated their lives to them.
to mission control translated to this:"My battery is low and it's getting dark."
Director Ryan White has woven together decades of footage from the NASA vaults with photorealistic effects and animation from Industrial Light & Magic, the famed visual effects company founded by George Lucas, and narration from actor Angela Bassett. The documentary places the viewer on Mars along with the two rovers as they roam on opposite sides of the red planet.
The bonds between team members and the rovers quickly deepened, despite the vast distance between Earth and Mars — making it all the more difficult when Spirit's journey ended in 2011 and Opportunity fell silent in 2018. There was hope for both rovers to"wake up" until the bitter end. A self-professed"space geek," White grew up in the 1980s and followed space missions. The project became his"lifesaver, getting to work on something so joyful during such a dark time," he said.
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