Episode 88: So Recognizably Mars

Published: Feb. 2, 2020, 6:10 p.m.

b'Guest: Emily Lakdawalla \\n\\nMars appears both beautifully and accurately in Star Trek: Picard\\u2014that is, until it gets fried to a crisp. Emily Lakdawalla, a world-renowned science communicator at The Planetary Society, shares her experience watching Mars\'s destruction on the big screen at the LA premiere of Star Trek: Picard, her eagle-eyed observations of its appearance, and her interview with visual effects supervisor Jason Zimmerman about creating a realistic Mars for Star Trek.\\n\\nEmily\'s Planetary Society blog post "Star Trek: Picard Gets the Martian Landscape Right": https://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/star-trek-picard-mars.html\\n\\nFollow us on Twitter:\\nMike: @Miquai\\nEmily: @elakdawalla'