These movies were originally Flash movies (created in 2004) that have been converted to Quicktime movies. They show the Spirit landing site and 2004 explorations and the Opportunity landing site. With these movies you will zoom into the highest resolution view from the Mars Global Surveyor showing the rover as seen from Mars orbit and then see Mars from the rover. The movies will pause at certain points.
When the movies were created, broadband was much slower and had spotty coverage, so there were concerns about file download sizes. The Spirit movie was 3 MB and the Opportunity movie was 4.6 MB. Their QuickTime versions are 126 MB and 147 MB, respectively but they probably now download much faster with today's broadband than the Flash movies did back then!
last updated: May 28, 2026