First things first, if you haven’t watched Matt Damon’s movie ‘The Martian’ – this video has a few spoilers which you may want to avoid!
Every science fiction movie these days gets analysed, and over analysed about how realistic the science is that is portrayed in each movie. The Martian can’t escape the same fate, especially with the ever increasing interest in humans potentially exploring Mars sometime in the near future.
BuzzFeed sat down with NASA scientist Josh K. Willis to get his take on Matt Damon’s latest movie to see how realistic some of the things which happens in the film actually are.
The above photo from Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Acidalia Planitia region of Mars depicted in The Martian
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The only way to really know how to react to Mars is to get there and find out!
cold fusion and dark matter ; what is the correlation ???
I thought The Martian was one of the best space films of recent times. It was mostly very accurate and did the book proud. With regard to the storm, the author, Andy Weir, acknowledged at the book’s launch that the storm would’nt be powerful enough to do the damage that was portrayed in the film. However, as he said ” No storm, no book and no film”.
Appollo 18 was more accurate and not as eye gougingly boring
if everything weighs the same in space and the LHC propels particles near lightspeed why couldn’t we use it to propel spacecraft?
What would happen if we found a signal coming from a star system and how would you go about sending a signal back.
how do we know what our galaxy looks like if we never even been out of our own galaxy?