Where Are NASA's Mars Rovers Now

Where Are NASA's Mars Rovers Now Five NASA rovers reached Mars, and none of them came home. Their last photographs, wheel tracks and unanswered calls tell very different stories. This film follows Opportunity, Spirit, Curiosity, Perseverance and Sojourner from their first days on the surface to the places they occupy today, with a helicopter, a cancelled ride home and one rover that changes the answer. Chapters 0:00 Receive half a photograph 1:26 Outlive ninety days 2:55 Wait through winter 5:21 Stop depending on sunlight 6:15 Lose the sun 10:18 Hang up on Mars 12:21 Wait for a ride 14:58 Look for the first 17:12 Meet the other one Images and footage: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech, Cornell, ASU, MSSS, Texas A&M, University of Arizona/HiRISE, Jim Bell/Pancam and NASA/Canberra DSCC. NASA photographs: Aubrey Gemignani, Bill Ingalls, Cory Huston, Tony Gray and Robert Murray. McMurdo visualization: NASA SVS, Global Science and Technology/Marit Jentoft-Nilsen. Museum photographs: Eric Long, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (CC0). Historical portraits: William P. Gottlieb/Library of Congress, Sojourner Truth (photographer unknown)/Library of Congress, and Henri Manuel. Additional archive: U.S. Department of Energy, National Archives and Architect of the Capitol. Rover command prototype paper: Sherwood et al., JPL/Caltech. Jacob Margolis portrait: © Brian Feinzimer/LAist/Southern California Public Radio. Music: Epidemic Sound. The thumbnail uses an AI-generated illustration. Photographs, footage and one NASA line drawing inside the film come from real archives.