GOODBYE OPPORTUNITY

GOODBYE OPPORTUNITY 

15 years after it's initial 90 day mission and expectation, We have to say goodbye to the Mars Exploration Rover Mission Opportunity. It stopped responding and, well, as it said itself in the most fucking emo robot way "my battery is low and it's getting dark"

Not even Marvin the Robot from Hitchhikers was that emo, bro. snap out of it. In any case, the MER team tried to wake up the little robot by playing loud music. Because at the beginning of the project the team developed a ritual of waking up the robot with a nudge from its hibernation with such action.

Hoping that it would wake up after this most recent dust storm. Though it seemed as if maybe some dust was on its solar panels. Without knowing it, each member of the MER team all started beaming up to wake the rover songs such as "Star me up" by the Rolling Stones, "Kickstart My Heart" by Motley Crue.
 
“We had quite a bag of tricks of things to try to regain contact with the rover,” Dr. Squyres says. “We got all the way to the bottom of the bag.  Nothing ever worked, We tried eight months. Eight months. We tried everything that you could try and it just got down to the end and we’d done everything we could do.”

But before they declared the mission over, Dr. Squyres had one last message to send to Mars. One final wake up song.....



I'll Be Seeing You, as sung by Billie Holiday.

Thank you, Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. You've done more than anyone ever expected of you. Thank you.