See an Exclusive Clip From 'Good Night Oppy,' Mars Rover Documentary

See an Exclusive Clip From Good Night Oppy, a New Doc About the Mars Rover That Defied the Odds

November 23. The film takes viewers back 30 years to the conceptualization, construction, and eventual launch of Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on Mars in 2003.

You’ll learn about the rovers’ struggles to withstand the punishing Martian environment—the main villains being dust in the air and an unfortunate sand trap. Dust devils, the large, whirling columns of dust that appear with little notice, had NASA worried, until they became an unexpected restorative force for the rovers.

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