"Why the Mars Rover Brings People to Tears: A Daughter's Explanation"

A TikTok video of a daughter crying over the Mars Opportunity Rover has gone viral. The daughter explains that the rover sang "Happy Birthday" to itself every year and played the song, but its final words before "dying" in 2019 were "My battery is low and it's getting dark." Despite being a robot, the rover's story has touched many people over the years and changed how scientists think about Mars. Gen Z has become particularly fascinated by missions to space, according to a social media specialist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.