NASA's famous Opportunity Mars rover is the star of a new documentary coming to Amazon Prime Video next month. Watch the trailer here.
While NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover tends to get all the attention these days, an incoming Amblin Entertainment and Amazon Studios documentary gives us a chance to celebrate two other Mars rovers that paved the way for the current Perseverance mission.
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.Good Night Oppy - Official Trailer | Prime Video Directed by Ryan White , Good Night Oppy has so far received largely warm reviews.
He described the documentary as “a glossy 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 footage from different rover mission control and meeting rooms over two decades.
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