Watched GOOD NIGHT OPPY (2022) πŸ€– πŸš€ πŸ’œ

#GoodNightOppy #Opportunity #Mars #Rover

One quibble--a bit of sound design took me slightly out of the documentary: The voice of Oppy included the sound of a hard disk drive (HDD) spinning up and its moving actuator arm clattering πŸ’½

However, it seems NASA sent DRAM, EEPROM, and flash RAM:

"The rovers run a VxWorks embedded operating system on a radiation-hardened 20 MHz RAD6000 CPU with 128 MB of DRAM with error detection and correction and 3 MB of EEPROM. Each rover also has 256 MB of flash memory."

Via:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover#Power_and_electronic_systems

Mars Exploration Rover - Wikipedia

Hearing the hard drive noises was charming though πŸ™‚

A bit more on sound design:
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/goodnight-oppy-mars-rover-sound-1234778568/

'Good Night Oppy' Sound Behind the Scenes

Sound designer Mark Mangini discusses why the challenge of creating a soundscape for the NASA rover documentary was different from that of β€œDune.”

IndieWire
@iokevins Is it good? I've got it on my watch list.
@cenbe For me, pretty solid documentary, but nothing to get too worked up about. Team did a great job sourcing people to interview (coming up on 20 years now). Graphics were very good. I thought it handled the "good night" portions about as good as it might have--not over-the-top sweet, but still recognizing the human-robot emotions of the team. It really was a career-defining project for many of them and the views and operations of JPL itself was perhaps the most interesting part to me.