Oppy’s every move across the Red Planet was perilous: a tiny mistake could have terminated its mission
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IT IS hard not to fall in love with Good Night Oppy, Ryan White’s stirring documentary about the interplanetary rover Opportunity. The vehicle launched into space on 7 July 2003, a few weeks after its sister machine, Spirit, and the pair landed on different sides of Mars in January 2004.
NASA expected both to live for just 90 sols, or Martian days, each about 39 minutes …
