One Sol in the Life of Curiosity

Space agencies plan the schedule of activity on Mars in the cycle of sols – Martian days lasting 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds. In an experimental sci-fi, the aging rover Curiosity sets out on its routine mission. Tremors of curiosity and the desire for knowledge mix in a written monologue with doubts about its own abilities and the meaning of its actions, which it addresses to the silent planet. “A series of individual submitted photos is animated with the help of generative neural networks into a full-fledged story. The selection of scenes and the editing took place using my own written program for interacting with the neural network that was used. Indeed, a similar technology could theoretically be used to control the rover to search for anomalies in the 'seen' image.” – Vít Růžička