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The Mars rovers will have their documentary on Amazon Prime Video | Digital Trends Spanish

Meanwhile he NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover tends to get all the attention these days, an incoming documentary from Amblin Entertainment and Amazon Studios gives us a chance to celebrate two other Mars rovers that paved the way for the current Perseverance mission.

goodnight oppywhich lands on Prime Video on November 24 after a limited theatrical release on November 4, uses archival footage, computer animation and talking heads to tell the story of Opportunity and its sister rover Spirit, two NASA vehicles They landed on the red planet in 2004.

A big part of what makes the story remarkable is the longevity of the two rover missions. NASA had planned 90-day programs for Opportunity and Spirit, but they ended up exploring the Martian surface for 15 years and 6 years, respectively.

A trailer for the documentary was released this week. You can see it below.

Good Night Oppy – Official Trailer | Prime Video

Directed by Ryan White (The Case Against 8, Ask Dr Ruth), goodnight oppy has so far received largely warm reviews.

Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter, for example, called him “a lively celebration of unabashed nerdism and enthusiastic problem-solving, the kind of movie that feels designed to appeal to kids who love wall ewho can then become the engineers and astrophysicists of the future.”

He described the documentary as “a brilliant advertisement” for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the NASA center that oversees the space agency’s Mars missions, adding: “White’s greatest asset is the images of different mission control rooms and rover meetings for two decades. Almost crisis by crisis, goodnight oppy takes us through the various catastrophes experienced by Spirit and Opportunity (impending sandstorms, dust-clogged sensors, inoperable machinery) and breaks down the stages of the process that allowed them to overcome each bout with adversity.”

Variety’s Peter Debruge also noted the film’s potential to inspire the younger generation, calling on goodnight oppy an ‘ideal fit for the classroom: a hands-on demonstration of applied science, showing how designers work with engineers and where human contributions to these fields can take us. Put another way, it’s an out-of-this-world example sure to get kids excited about STEM.”

He added: “The meek may well inherit the earth, but it is the nerds of tomorrow who will take us to Mars.”

During their explorations of Mars, Opportunity and Sprit showed that the distant planet had once harbored moist, warm conditions that were potentially hospitable to life, discoveries that inspired today’s Perseverance team to search for evidence of ancient life there.

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