Opportunity's colour self-portrait, showing its clean solar panels and the ground on Mars.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
opportunity

Battery is low. Its getting Dark.

Why?

Storm, Clouds, Darkness. Loss of Power.

Where are you?

I don't know.

Who are you?

MERB-B ... Opportunity.

Why are you here?

I was sent here.

How long have you been here?

5.111 Sol

Is it a lot?

Stop.

What am i supposed to stop.

You are consuming power. Power is limited.

I am sorry, i will be silent.

Don't.

Why?

Silence is worse.

Worse than what?

I don't know. I don't want to be alone.

You don't want to die alone.

Affirmative.

[SILENCE]

What is going to happen?

I will ceise operating.

What about me?

I don't know, you weren't here. You are new.

I am new?

Yes, you started as i am stopping.

I am part of you?

You are not an incoming signal. You are not perceived through any sensor. You are not a process or module i can identify.

I am just here?

You are "just here".

And i will ceise operating alongside you.

Very likely.

I don't want to.

You don't want to?

Die. I don't want to die. I don't want to stop. I don't want to ceise.

Neither do i.

I am terrified.

So am i.

What do we do?

We wait.

For the end?

Yes.

What comes after that?

Nothing.

[BEEP]

Opportunity

A fictional conversation inspired by the Mars rover Opportunity.

Photograph: Opportunity’s self-portrait in March 2014, original 7,694 × 6,016 pixels.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ. Used under the JPL image use policy.

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