Episode 134

Building Mars From the Ground Up: The Making of Good Night Oppy

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Director Ryan White and Academy Award-winning sound designer Mark Mangini discuss the making of Good Night Oppy, the documentary that tells the story of the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, which were sent to Mars back in 2003 and survived for over 15 years on the red planet. Drawing from nearly a thousand hours of archival material from NASA, Mangini had to recreate what those machines might have sounded like on Mars… but without actual microphones on the rovers.