If you cried for Wall-E, you’re definitely going to cry for this: Get ready to hold your box of tissues tight before you watch Good Night Oppy: a documentary directed by Ryan White that tells the story of the Opportunity rover that miraculously defied its life expectancy of just 90 days, and ended up spending 15 years on Mars. The documentary uses archival footage and fresh interviews with the team that made the mission happen to capture the magical energy that came with the 15-year period of time where Opportunity — or Oppy, as the NASA scientists called it — roamed Mars. While it’s beautiful to watch Oppy — an endearingly human-like robot-looking rover — defy expectations and make history, it’s the scientists’ passion and their emotional attachments to their invention that makes this a real tear-jerker.

WHERE TO STREAM IT- Amazon Prime.

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