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Amazon’s Good Night Oppy is likely to be sold to audiences on the strength of its adorably anthropomorphic robotic protagonist and ambitious surface-of-Mars special effects from the wizards at Ilm. But the appeal of Ryan White’s endearing and emotional documentary is much more grounded.
Good Night Oppy is a lively celebration of unabashed nerdiness and enthusiastic problem-solving, the sort of movie that feels designed to attract Wall-e-loving children, who can then be shaped into the engineers and astrophysicists of the future. It’s a glossy advertisement for NASA and Jpl — I thought of Disney+’s recent Ilm documentary/commercial Light & Magic more than a few times while watching — but it comes by its waves of emotion honestly.
In 2003, two robotic rovers were sent to Mars on separate missions to collect data about the Red Planet’s topography and, hopefully, its history with water.
Amazon’s Good Night Oppy is likely to be sold to audiences on the strength of its adorably anthropomorphic robotic protagonist and ambitious surface-of-Mars special effects from the wizards at Ilm. But the appeal of Ryan White’s endearing and emotional documentary is much more grounded.
Good Night Oppy is a lively celebration of unabashed nerdiness and enthusiastic problem-solving, the sort of movie that feels designed to attract Wall-e-loving children, who can then be shaped into the engineers and astrophysicists of the future. It’s a glossy advertisement for NASA and Jpl — I thought of Disney+’s recent Ilm documentary/commercial Light & Magic more than a few times while watching — but it comes by its waves of emotion honestly.
In 2003, two robotic rovers were sent to Mars on separate missions to collect data about the Red Planet’s topography and, hopefully, its history with water.
- 9/3/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Washington, March 18 (Ians) You can now have a feel of how it would be like if you get a chance to drive on Mars as NASA has released audio clips of its Perseverance rover crunching across the surface of the Red Planet, adding a whole new dimension to Mars exploration.
As the Perseverance rover began to make tracks on the surface of Mars, a sensitive microphone it carries scored a first: the bangs, pings, and rattles of the robot's six wheels as they rolled over Martian terrain.
"A lot of people, when they see the images, don't appreciate that the wheels are metal," Vandi Verma, a senior engineer and rover driver at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement.
"When you're driving with these wheels on rocks, it's actually very noisy."
More than 16 minutes of sounds from Perseverance's 27.3-metre drive on March 7 were captured by Perseverance's entry,...
As the Perseverance rover began to make tracks on the surface of Mars, a sensitive microphone it carries scored a first: the bangs, pings, and rattles of the robot's six wheels as they rolled over Martian terrain.
"A lot of people, when they see the images, don't appreciate that the wheels are metal," Vandi Verma, a senior engineer and rover driver at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement.
"When you're driving with these wheels on rocks, it's actually very noisy."
More than 16 minutes of sounds from Perseverance's 27.3-metre drive on March 7 were captured by Perseverance's entry,...
- 3/18/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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