How Opportunity Shocked NASA Scientists | Supercut

This is a combination of the entire Opportunity series from my channel, merged into one video, with improved audio and extra clips.

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[nutbastard]

Here's a cute little factoid: Mars is the only planet we know of that is entirely populated by robots.

[shadownet]

For people wondering - Opportunity outlived it's estimated lifespan by 59.46 times. What a legend.

[mvw]

It's hard not to humanize the rovers, especially after seeing this. We learned so much from these missions and for the work they did. Though her sister shut down long before her, Opportunity kept going despite all odds, and all projections - as if it knew how much this meant to us. Maybe one day when we make our way to that distant red rock, we can find her grave once again. Perhaps we can even bring her home. Thank you for the video. Rest easy, Opportunity - you've earned it. o7

[rev.dennisp.sepulveda]

I don’t know why YouTube pushes for shorter videos. This video was an hour long and it was very well done. Please continue to do videos like this as I find them very interesting. Thank you!

[ClaymateDesigner]

Design for 3 months. last for 15 years. That's what I call Engineering.

[astrumspace]

To those returning and new to the channel: Hello! The content of this video is from a long running series on my channel. I've basically taken out all the intros and outros from the episodes, removed the sponsor integrations, and re-recorded the audio for a few of the episodes to bring them up to quality with the latter episodes. There's also a few extra clips here and there if I saw something that could be improved. Hopefully now it will feel simply like a single video rather than a collection of many videos, and you can watch it through in one go without interruptions. Enjoy!

[Chuckles..]

knocking around Mars for 15 years doing research is an enormous achievement, kinda hard not to feel for Opportunity. Great documentary!.

[donloughrey]

I don't care how many times that I watch this I still get an overwhelming sense of pride.
The way Alex presents it is wonderful and at the end I do feel emotion for a robot, a robot of all things. Thanks Alex.

[SnowblindOtter]

"My battery is low, and it's getting dark." It may have been an interpretation, but it carried with it the capacity for all of us to feel the same emotion the mission controllers felt.

[PanduPoluan]

Two real-life robots I ever shed tear for: Cassini and Opportunity.

Rest well, great explorers.

[RKP]

I’m not easily impressed but the fact NASA can send this little machine millions of miles and land it on a tiny dot in the sky and then control it from millions of miles away and bring it to life and transmit incredible photos for years. Absolutely amazing.

[IamCoalfoot]

Imagine setting up an experiment run exclusively by a brand new Game Gear, and still being able to run it more than a decade later. That's what Spirit and Opportunity were like; after a while, they were so old that even being outdated wasn't the problem, the parts were literally falling apart. Those two rovers are a credit to their makers, keepers, and human ingenuity. <3

[kebubas]

I can't imagine the gut wrenching feeling when you have to call an end on a 12 year mission that was supposed to be mere months at the start.. I still find it difficult to comprehend that people put basically an RC vehicle on another planet, a vehicle that not only let us see the planet as if we were on the surface ourselves but dig around in the soil... Mad love, dear Opportunity, you went way beyond what was expected of you, I think a rest is well deserved..

[alexscholz]

"My battery is low and it's getting dark" is such a tragic, poetic interpretation of Opportunity's final message that I think deserves a mention. Maybe one day, Opportunity may get the opportunity to send another message. Until then, I think she's deserved some sleep.

Good night, Opportunity. And thank you.

[CubeCyclone]

I do love it when these pieces of tech painstakingly designed and put together last longer than their designed shelf life. It's a great testimony to the fantastic team behind them all. Well done people... A mission to be proud of.

[vwlssnvwls]

Hole in one for the landing sounds about right. Being 25km off after traveling about 56 million kilometers sounds like a pretty damn good shot to me. :D

[HomeHome-yfkb]

I even teared up a lil bit at the end but i can't imagine some ppl dedicating designing the rover, sending it to mars, successfully landing it, performing 15 yearrs of surface operations and then how it felt when it all ended.
Bravo

[Lanewreck]

This little guy was litteraly the embodiment of the story, "The little engine that could" big salute to helping progress humanity, god speed opportunity.

[richardborrell]

My passive reliance of mainstream media reporting of Opportunity had left me ignorant of the truly, awesome science that has come from this explorer. Thank you Astrum! As an engineer, I can understand the pessimism, yet am still bemused by the short mission lifetime estimates often assigned. Of course, space is harsh, yet the Voyagers are still operating using technology from the '70s.

[SuperCompany]

I hope that one day we will go to Mars and turn the remains of Opportunity into a monument to the rover itself and all the people who worked with it for14 years here on earth