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March 27, 2015

#1504: Opportunity explain

Opportunity

[The year (or year and first sentence) for each panel is written in a small frame at the top of each panel. It breaks the top frame of the panels.]

[Ponytail is sitting at a computer, facing left. Hairbun stands behind her.]

2010:

Ponytail: After six years, Spirit is down, but Opportunity is still going strong.

Hairbun: Tough little rover!

[Opportunity traveling on Mars. Text is written in frames with zigzag lines]

2015:

Off-screen: Eleven years, wow.

Off-screen 2: Wasn’t the original mission 90 days?

Off-screen: This is starting to get weird.

[Cueball and Megan sitting at a computer, facing right.]

2023:

Cueball: The battery is totally disconnected. How can it still be moving??

Megan: Given what it did to the Mars 2020 rover, we may never know.

[Two Martian inhabitants looking like Cueball and Megan stands on a cliff edge pointing towards a dark, mountainous region. Behind them are a tower and a hover car]

2450, terraformed Mars, Martian imperial capital:

Martian Cueball: Everything the light touches is our kingdom.

Martian Megan: What’s that dark area?

Martian Cueball: That is Opportunity’s half of the planet. We must never go there.