Roving Mars Page #2

Synopsis: A pair of uncrewed vehicles transmit images from Mars.
Director(s): George Butler
Production: Buena Vista
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
70%
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Year:
2006
40 min
$9,959,080
Website
48 Views


This rover also has to be a spacecraft,

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lt actually has to

fly itself from Earth to Mars,

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ln addition, it has to do

the very subtle and quick timing control

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of all the things that happen

as it enters and lands the vehicle,

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We had to stuff

all that intelligence and capability

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into that little six-wheel vehicle back there

so that it could get there safely on its own,

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i( Manning)/i l call our spacecraft

the ''origami spacecraft,''

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which means it's really

a complicated series of folds,

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We punched holes in the lander petals

for the wheels to snake through,

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We've had to fold everything

into these complicated shapes

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to get this system

to fit inside this tetrahedron,

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lt's beautiful, but at a price,

and that price, in this case, is complexity,

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i( Squyres)/i There have been

missions to Mars since the '60s,

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there have been dozens of them,

but two-thirds of those missions failed,

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Mars is a spacecraft graveyard,

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A spacecraft has to travel

about 300 million miles to get to Mars

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at about 60,000 miles an hour,

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but it still takes seven months to get there,

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Trying to hit our landing sites

from that distance

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is like shooting a basketball

from Los Angeles to New York

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and having it go through the hoop

without touching the rim,

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The smallest mistake on our part

could put the whole mission in jeopardy,

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Two of the last three missions to Mars

were failures,

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One spacecraft burned in the atmosphere,

the other one crashed on the surface,

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This time, NASA decided to

send two identical spacecraft

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to double our chances of success,

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The two rovers are named

''Spirit'' and ''Opportunity,''

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They have very different personalities,

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They did when they were babies,

back when we were first building them,

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