Production company Amblin Entertainment and Amazon Studios revealed the trailer for Good night Oppya documentary film telling the story of the Opportunity spacecraft on Mars, directed by Ryan White and narrated by Ryan White Actress Angela Bassett.
Designed to operate for only three months on the Red Planet, the robot has been active for nearly 15 years, revealing the conditions for microbial life on our neighbors and much more. The documentary arrives on Amazon Prime Video on November 23.
The trailer is about 2 minutes long and features some highlights from Chance — or just “Opie,” as his team affectionately called him — on Mars. In the trailer, you briefly follow the launch and descent through the planet’s atmosphere, along with some images of the rover as it moves from there.
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You may have noticed that the trailer features images of NASA To bring the public back to the beginning of the mission, with footage from the rover’s construction, testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and even the work of the mission team. Trailer ends farewellGood night, chance, good job,” Bassett said. To reconstruct Opportunity activities on Mars, White worked with the book The Mars RoverWritten by Stephen Squires.
The trailer features images from cameras on the rover mast, which captured various shots along the way, but one notable aspect is the animated scenes from Industrial Light & Magic, the same company that created the Star Wars special effects. “Part of the big thing about this movie is that it’s going to be one of the first real Mars movies out there,” White said.
According to him, the team worked with hundreds of thousands of photos of the red planet that they took Rovers have been sent to There, along with satellite images, which brings up the details of the planet’s topography. He noted, “It was amazing to have all these original photos at our disposal, but it was also very challenging because we wanted to be as true to reality as possible.”
What did the Opportunity spacecraft do on Mars?
Opportunity was launched to Mars in 2003 to look for signs of water there. After landing in 2004, “Oppy” made a series of discoveries about the planet, including evidence of the existence of the presence of water for long periods in the Martian past.
Originally, the rover was only supposed to operate for 90 days, but it has explored Mars for nearly 15 years. “The story is about a robot traveling alone on this planet, but is driven – literally – by the extreme relationship and bond that has formed between man and machine,” the product described in a statement. Over the course of more than 100 minutes, the production will take the audience to follow the rover’s path on Mars until the end of its mission.
Oppy stopped communicating with the Earth after a severe dust storm in 2018. After more than a thousand commands to try to restore contact, JPL engineers made work The last attempt to “revive” the rover, no avail. “For a robot that turned 90 days into 15 years of exploration, you were and still are the opportunity of a lifetime. Rest well, rover, your mission is complete,” NASA wrote at the end of the mission in 2019.
source: Amblin
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